Needletooth cusk


The needletooth cusk is a species of cusk-eel found in the Indian and the western Pacific Ocean where it occurs at depths of. This species grows to a length of SL. It is the only known species of its genus The generic name is a compound of the Greek epetrion meaning "needle" and odous meaning "tooth", while the specific name honours the English ichthyologist Norman Bertram “Freddy” Marshall who worked on deep sea fishes as the British Museum.