Eucla cod

The Eucla cod, Euclichthys polynemus, is a deepwater marine fish of the cod order Gadiformes. It is the only species currently placed in the family Euclichthyidae, and it takes its common name from the town of Eucla in Western Australia, in whose coastal waters it is found. The fish has a long, tapering body with a large mouth and no chin barbel. Its two dorsal fins lie nearly side by side: the first is short-based and high, while the second is long-based and runs to the base of the tail fin. It may grow to about 35 centimetres. Its recorded range takes in the Tasman Sea, the waters around Australia from Queensland to the north Western Australian shelf, and the New Zealand shelf, at depths of about 250 to 920 metres. The species was described by Allan Riverstone McCulloch in 1926, and it has no commercial value.