Kantengenge - Kantengenge (English spelling) jelly eelpout

Japanese: カンテンゲンゲ - かんてんげんげ(英語表記)jelly eelpout
Kantengenge - Kantengenge (English spelling) jelly eelpout

This saltwater fish belongs to the order Perciformes and family Gastropodidae of the class Osteichthyes. It is found in the Pacific Ocean north of Choshi in Chiba Prefecture, in Niigata Prefecture, Akita Prefecture, and in the southern part of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. Its Japanese name comes from the fact that its body is made of agar. Its body is long and slender and flat. Its snout is pointed. The eyes are narrowly spaced apart. It has two lateral lines, the front one running above the pectoral fins and the rear one running down the center of its body. It has no pelvic fins. Its dorsal and anal fins are high. Its body is gray-brown with blackish fins. It lives at depths of 200 to 900 meters and is caught with bottom trawls. It grows to a total length of about 50 centimeters. It is not generally sold commercially, but in its producing areas it is used as an ingredient in hotpots, miso soup, and fried chicken. The closely related species, the white-spotted flycatcher, can be distinguished from the Japanese stingray by having a wider interocular space, scales in front of the pectoral fins, and blunt tips of the pectoral fins.

[Kunio Amano]

[Reference] | Shirogenge

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

硬骨魚綱スズキ目ゲンゲ科に属する海水魚。千葉県銚子(ちょうし)以北の太平洋、新潟県、秋田県、オホーツク海南部に分布する。和名は、体が寒天質であることに由来する。体は細長くて扁平(へんぺい)である。吻(ふん)はとがる。両眼の間隔は狭い。側線は2本あり、前のものは胸びれの上方を、後ろのものは体の中央部を走る。腹びれはない。背びれと臀(しり)びれは高い。体は灰褐色で、ひれは黒みをおびる。水深200~900メートルにすみ、底引網で漁獲される。全長50センチメートルほどになる。一般には商品として出まわらないが、産地では鍋(なべ)の具、みそ汁、から揚げなどにする。近縁種のシロゲンゲは両眼間隔域が広いこと、胸びれの前に鱗(うろこ)があること、胸びれの先端はとがらないことなどでカンテンゲンゲと区別できる。

[尼岡邦夫]

[参照項目] | シロゲンゲ

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