Bathypterois viridensis
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Aulopiformes
Ipnopidae
Bathypterois
Bathypterois viridensis
Description
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Characters
Moderately elongate and moderately slender; upper pectoral fin rays slender, elongated, and superficially separated from lower rays; interior pelvic fin rays and lower caudal fin rays greatly elongated; body depth 12.8% to 17.3%, head length 24.7% to 29.1%, snout length 8.1% to 9.8% of SL; teeth in jaws recurved, barbed at tips, and arranged in a broad band; teeth on vomer, palatine, and tongue; eye minute and laterally directed; branchiostegal rays 12 or 13; gill rakers on first arch 11 on epibranch, 1 in corner, and 27 or 28 on lower limb; pectoral fin with 2 rudimentary upper rays, 7 elongate rays, 1 rudimentary ray, and 5 or 6 elongated lower rays; dorsal fin originates over or slightly posterior to base of inner pelvic fin rays with 12 or 13 rays; pelvic fin with 8 rays, first one greatly produced and thickened; anal fin with 10 to 12 rays; dorsal adipose fin present; caudal fin with lower 2 principal rays greatly elongated, tips usually thickened; last ventral procurrent ray not modified into subcaudal notch and hook; scales on body, including gular fold; lateral line scales 51 to 56; vertebrae 50 to 52
White with three dark bands; body below dorsal fin white; caudal fin dark
Distribution
Eastern seaboard of the United States from about 44°N to northern Brazil, 4°N, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
Habitat Associations
Tropical to warm temperate Atlantic; depth range 476 to 1,477 m; temperatures 5.6°C to 11.1°C
Biology
Maximum known size 222 mm SL
Found on continental slopes. Synchronously hermaphroditic (Ref. 3590).
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2013-05-15. Resilience: Low (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Phylogeny and Morphologically Similar Fishes
Distinguished from other species of the family by the combination of characters
References
Mead 1966c
Sulak 1977
Uyeno et al. 1983
Merrett, N.R. (1990) Chlorophthalmidae. p. 351-360. 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.
Uyeno, T., K. Matsuura and E. Fujii (eds.) (1983) Fishes trawled off Suriname and French Guiana. Japan Marine Fishery Resource Research Center, Tokyo, Japan. 519 p.
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