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lancetfish
noun
A voracious deep-sea fish in the genus , having long, lancet-like teeth.
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The bony fish it feeds on include lancetfish, oarfish, barracuda, jacks, dolphinfish, marlin, tuna, and mackerel.
Threshers are also known to take large, solitary fishes such as lancetfish, as well as squid and other pelagic invertebrates.
Known food items include schooling forage fish such as mackerel and herring, benthic fishes such as hake and whiting, larger pelagic fishes such as lancetfish and small billfish, squid such as lycoteuthids and ommastrephids, and possibly crab megalopae.
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