Serrulate whiptail
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The serrulate whiptail or serrulate rattail, Coryphaenoides serrulatus, is a rattail
Rattail
Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the family Macrouridae...

 of the genus Coryphaenoides
Coryphaenoides
Coryphaenoides is a genus of rattails of the family Macrouridae.- Species :* Pacific grenadier, Coryphaenoides acrolepis - * Coryphaenoides affinis - * Coryphaenoides alateralis - * Coryphaenoides altipinnis -...

, found around southern Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 and New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, at depths of between 750 and 2,000 m. Its length is between 30 and 45 cm.
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