Paraulopus nigripinnis

Paraulopus nigripinnis, the cucumber fish, ‘’‘Montague whiting’’’ is a grinner of the genus Paraulopus. It is a deep water fish found around southern Australia and New Zealand on the continental shelf at depths between 65 and 600 m.^[1] Their length is between 15 and 20 cm. They were first described by Günther in 1878.

Cucumber fish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Aulopiformes
Family:	Paraulopidae
Genus:	Paraulopus
Species:	P. nigripinnis
Binomial name
Paraulopus nigripinnis (Günther, 1878)