Common Atlantic grenadier
# Common Atlantic grenadier

The common Atlantic grenadier (Nezumia aequalis) is a species of fish in the family Macrouridae.

## Description

The common Atlantic grenadier is blue-violet in colour, with silvery and black areas. Its maximum length is 36 centimetres (14 in). It has 2 dorsal spines and its spinules are lanceolate or shield-shaped. Its head, snout and chin barbel are short.

## Habitat

The common Atlantic grenadier lives in the Atlantic Ocean; it is benthopelagic, living at depths of 200–2,320 m (660–7,610 ft).

## Behaviour

The common Atlantic grenadier feeds on mysids, amphipods, small shrimps, copepods, isopods, ostracods and polychaete worms.

