Coryphaenoides acrolepis és una espècie de peix de la família dels macrúrids i de l'ordre dels gadiformes.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 104 cm de llargària total i 3.000 g de pes.FishBase Fadeev, N.S., 2005. Guide to biology and fisheries of fishes of the North Pacific Ocean. Vladivostok, TINRO-Center. 366 p.

Reproducció És ovípar i de larves planctòniques.Ambrose, D.A., 1996. Macrouridae: grenadiers. p. 483-499. A H.G. Moser (ed.) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Atlas Núm. 33. 1505p.

Alimentació Els adults mengen peixets, gambes, amfípodes, cefalòpodes i eufausiacis.Cohen, D.M., T. Inada, T. Iwamoto i N. Scialabba 1990. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 10. Gadiform fishes of the world (Order Gadiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cods, hakes, grenadiers and other gadiform fishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 10 (125). 442 p.

Hàbitat És un peix d'aigües profundes que viu entre 300-3700 m de fondària,Fedorov, V.V., I.A. Chereshnev, M.V. Nazarkin, A.V. Shestakov i V.V. Volobuev, 2003. Catalog of marine and freswater fishes of the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk. Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2003. 204 p. tot i que, normalment, ho fa entre 900-1300.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba al Pacífic nord: des del nord del Japó fins a Okhotsk, la mar de Bering i, resseguint la costa nord-americana, fins al nord de Mèxic.

Longevitat Pot viure fins als 73 anys.Andrews, A.H., G.M. Cailliet i K.H. Coale, 1999. Age and growth of the Pacific grenadier (Coryphaenoides acrolepis) with age estimate validation using an improved radiometric ageing technique. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56:1339-1350.

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