Critically Endangered
Coryphaenoides rupestris
Coryphaenoides rupestris
Coryphaenoides rupestris is a ray-finned fish in the family Macrouridae (order Gadiformes), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The rounded head is large with a broad snout, the abdomen small and the tail long and tapering to a pointed tip. At the front of the snout there is a blunt, tube-like scute or scale and there is a small barbel under the chin. The scales on the body are densely packed and covered with small spines.
The roundnose grenadier is a deep water fish sometimes reaching over a metre (yard) in length.
Range and habitat
The roundnose grenadier is found in the northern Atlantic Ocean at depths between 400 and 1,200 m (1,300 and 3,900 ft) and occasionally at much greater depths. Its range normally extends from Baffin Island, Greenland, Iceland and Norway south to the New England Seamounts and North Africa. It is found on continental shelves and in the vicinity of seamounts and knolls.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Its common names include the rock grenadier, the roundnose grenadier and the roundhead rat-tail.
Coryphaenoides rupestris is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Coryphaenoides rupestris, Wikidata item Q2176319. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
