Rinoctes

Rinoctes is a monospecific genus of deepwater maine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Alepocephalidae, the slickheads. The only species in the genus is Rinoctes nasutus, the abyssal smooth-head, which is found at depths of 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) to 4,156 metres (13,635 ft) in the Atlantic Ocean, and possibly in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.^[1] It grows to a length of 19 centimetres (7.5 in) SL.^[2]

Rinoctes
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Alepocephaliformes
Family:	Alepocephalidae
Genus:	Rinoctes A. E. Parr, 1952
Species:	R. nasutus
Binomial name
Rinoctes nasutus (Koefoed, 1927)
Synonyms[2]
Bathytroctes nasutus Koefoed, 1927