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Giant Wrymouth

Cryptacanthodes giganteus

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@Jus1Drin · Del Mar Condos, United States · June 20171 / 1
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Overview

Found singly, on soft bottoms, often buried in sand.

Wrymouths spend most of their time buried in soft substrate, they make extensive systems of tunnels with numerous exits.
Usually caught incidentally by commercial fisheries.

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How to identify

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Behaviour
bottom dwellingburies in sandburrowingsolitary

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Northeast Pacific
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Found singly, on soft bottoms, often buried in sand.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderPerciformes
    5. familyCryptacanthodidae
    6. genusCryptacanthodes
    7. speciesCryptacanthodes giganteus (Kittlitz, 1858)

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