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Brandi Noble, NOAA NMFS Mississippi Laboratory, license: CC BY 3.0, source: FishBase
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Ophidiiformes
Family:
Ophidiidae
Subfamily:
Ophidiinae
Genus:
Lepophidium
Species:
profundorum
Common:
Blackrim cusk-eel
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Boreal
Waters:
Marine
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Regions:
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Nguyen, T. K., Lin, H., Parmentier, E., Fine, M. L. 2008. Seasonal Variation in Sonic Muscles in the Fawn Cusk-Eel Lepophidium profundorum. Biology Letters, 4(6): 707-710.
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Fine, M. L., Lin, H., Nguyen, B. B., Rountree, R. A., Cameron, T. M., Parmentier, E. 2007. Functional Morphology of the Sonic Apparatus in the Fawn Cusk-Eel Lepophidium profundorum (Gill, 1863). Journal of Morphology, 268(11): 953-966.