title: Common Atlantic grenadier
text: # 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.
  
  