Pink cusk-eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Ophidiiformes
Family:	Ophidiidae
Genus:	Genypterus
Species:	G. blacodes
Binomial name
Genypterus blacodes (Forster, 1801)

The pink cusk-eel, Genypterus blacodes, is a cusk eel of the genus Genypterus, found in southern Australia, Chile, Brazil, South Africa and around New Zealand except the east coast of Northland, in depths of a few metres to 1000 metres. Their length is between 80 and 200 centimetres, and they live for up to 30 years.

Other names in English include ling, Australian rockling, kingclip, pink ling, and northern ling.

[edit] References

• Genypterus blacodes (TSN 165000). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 19 March 2006.
• "Genypterus blacodes". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
• Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 978-0-00-216987-5