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

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 45 cm de llargària total.FishBase Claro, R., 1994. Características generales de la ictiofauna. p. 55-70. A R. Claro (ed.) Ecología de los peces marinos de Cuba. Instituto de Oceanología Academia de Ciencias de Cuba i Centro de Investigaciones de Quintana Roo.

Alimentació Menja poliquets, copèpodes, amfípodes i misidacis.Geistdoerfer, P. 1986. Macrouridae. p. 644-676. A P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen i E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, París. Vol. 2.

Hàbitat És un peix d'aigües profundes que viu entre 384-5610 m de fondària.Iwamoto, T. i E. Anderson, 1994. Review of the grenadiers (Teleostei: Gadiformes) of southern Africa, with descriptions of four new species. Ichthyol. Bull. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol. (61):1-28.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba a ambdues ribes de l'Atlàntic nord, al sud-est de l'Atlàntic i al sud de l'oceà Índic.Shcherbachev, Y.N., 1987. Preliminary list of thalassobathyal fishes of the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian Ocean. J. Ichthyol. 27(2):37-46.

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