Bathophilus pawneei
No common name
Collection Details
Specimens
Photos
There are no photos available for this taxon yet.
Records
Taxonomic Hierarchy
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Stomiiformes
Stomiidae (Dragonfishes)
Bathophilus
Bathophilus pawneei
Description
This species account was compiled from
Composite (multiple sources) (McEachran, J.D. and J.D. Fechhelm. Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico. University of Texas Press, Austin.)
and processed using AI-assisted text extraction.
It may contain errors in spelling, punctuation, or formatting.
When citing, please reference the original source rather than this page.
Learn more about our species accounts.
Characters
Elongate and moderately slender, with a moderately long snout, a long chin barbel, and pelvic fins located near midline. Body depth is 10% to 18% and head length is 15.1% to 18.4% of SL. Lower jaw is about as long as upper jaw and is not curved upward at tip. Premaxilla has 8 to 13 teeth; first 2 are large, and remainder are small. Lower jaw has 2 large anterior teeth and 10 to 13 small teeth. Chin barbel is as long as body or longer and lacks bulbs and filaments. Pectoral fin consists of 2 filamentous rays. Dorsal fin has 14 to 17 rays, and anal fin has 15 to 18 rays. Pelvic fin has 12 to 15 free rays. IP number 5, PV number 12 to 15, and VAV number 13 to 15. OV number 11 to 14, VAL number 13 to 15, and AC number 6 or 7. Preorbital and suborbital luminous organs are absent. Po is slightly shorter than eye diameter and is preceded by small roundish organ. Entire body is covered with small photophores. Vertebrae number 45.
Color is black with iridescent blue, green, or bronze cast.
Distribution
Off the east coast of Florida, the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea
Habitat Associations
Tropical seas, from near the surface to 1,500 m but most abundant between 100 and 500 m at night
Biology
Food consists of midwater fishes
Maximum known size is 124 mm SL
Meso- and bathypelagic at 40-1500 m (Ref. 58302).
Reproductive mode: dioecism; fertilization: external; nonguarders (open water/substratum egg scatterers); parental care: none.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2013-05-20. Resilience: Medium (Assuming tmax>3).
Phylogeny and Morphologically Similar Fishes
Distinguished from the other species of the family by the combination of characters described
References
Morrow and Gibbs 1964
Barnett and Gibbs 1968
Rass 1971
Sutton and Hopkins 1996, in press
Gibbs, R.H. and M.A. Barnett (1990) Melanostomiidae. p. 308-337. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1.
Reiner, F. (1996) Catálogo dos peixes do arquipélago de Cabo Verde. Publ. Avuls. Inst. Port. Invest. Mar. 2:339 p.
Bigelow, H.B., D.M. Cohen, M.M. Dick, R.H. Gibbs Jr., M. Grey, J.E. Morrow Jr., L.P. Schultz and V. Walters (1964) Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Part four. New Haven, Sears Found. Mar. Res., Yale Univ.
Sutton, T.T. and T.L. Hopkins (1996) Trophic ecology of the stomiid (Pisces: Stomiidae) fish assemblage of the eastern Gulf of Mexico: strategies, selectivity and impact of a top mesopelagic predator group. Mar. Biol. 127:179-192.
Patzner, R.A. (2008) Reproductive strategies of fish. pp. 311-350. In Rocha, M.J., A. Arukwe and B.G. Kapoor (eds). Fish reproduction: cytology, biology and ecology. Science Publisher, Inc. Oxford. 631 p.
Comments On Bathophilus pawneei