Australian tusk

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Australian tusk (Dannevigia tusca) is a species of cusk-eel found in southern Australian waters, mainly off the Great Australian Bight and sometimes toward Bass Strait. It lives at depths of 115 to 400 meters and grows up to 56 cm long. It is the only known species in its genus, which honors Harold Christian Dannevig, a former Australian Director of Fisheries who collected the type specimen and later disappeared at sea when the research vessel he worked on was lost.

Classification: Kingdom Animalia; Phylum Chordata; Class Actinopterygii; Order Ophidiiformes; Family Ophidiidae; Subfamily Neobythitinae; Genus Dannevigia; Species D. tusca.

Conservation status: Least Concern.