Snyderidia canina Gilbert 1905

Illustration of the holotype of Snyderidia canina. Source: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Fishes. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike

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Snyderidia canina Gilbert 1905

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Distribution	Known from tropical waters off Cocos (Keeling) Island, within the Australian EEZ, at a depth of 320-410 m. Elsewhere, circumglobal in tropical waters, absent from the eastern Pacific.
Size	Maximum total length 27 cm.
Fisheries	Of no interest to fisheries.
Conservation	IUCN Red List : Least Concern
Author	Dianne J. Bray

Snyderidia canina Gilbert 1905

References

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Knudsen, S. 2015. Snyderidia canina. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T20665159A20683418. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T20665159A20683418.en. Downloaded on 15 June 2016.

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