Bolinichthys supralateralis
No common name
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G5
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Myctophiformes (Lanternfishes)
Myctophidae (Lanternfishes)
Bolinichthys
Bolinichthys supralateralis
Description
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Characters
Moderately slender and compressed; moderate-sized mouth; dorsal and anal fin bases of approximately equal length; snout slightly blunt; jaws extend about one-half eye diameter beyond posterior margin of orbit; maxilla expanded posteriorly; head 33.3% to 35.7% and upper jaw 21.3% to 23.4% of SL; posterodorsal opercular margin concave, and posterior margin pointed or serrated; gill rakers number 19 or 20; dorsal fin originates over or slightly anterior to pelvic fin base and has 13 to 15 rays; pectoral fin extends to last AOa and has 13 or 14 rays; anal fin originates posterior to dorsal fin base and has 13 to 15 rays; Vn poorly developed and located on anterior aspect of orbit; PVO above and slightly posterior to PVC; PLO in contact with or above lateral line; five PO present, with PO3 and PO5 elevated; VLO closer to lateral line than to pelvic fin base; five VO present, with VO2 slightly elevated and VO3, VO4, and VO5 in straight line; SAO form very slight angle, with SAO1 above and slightly behind VO5, and SAO3 over anal fin base and above lateral line; AOa number four to six, with first depressed, and AOp number three to five and are behind anal fin base; three Prc present, with first two near ventral contour and third above level of lateral line; supracadal and infracaudal glands occur in both sexes and consist of two or three and three to six scalelike structures respectively
Luminous patches occur on base of anal fin; crescent-shaped whitish tissue is located on posterior half of iris
Distribution
Cape Cod to northern Argentina, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico (less common than B. photothorax)
Habitat Associations
Tropical to warm temperate Atlantic, western Pacific, and western Indian Oceans; daytime depths range from 250 to 750 m, and nighttime depths range from 40 to 650 m for smaller specimens and from 500 to 750 m for larger specimens
Biology
Maximum known size is 110 mm SL
Maturity is reached at about 90 mm SL
High-oceanic species found between 375 and 750 during the day and between 40 and 650 at night (Ref. 4775). Mesopelagic (Ref. 75154). Large individuals are non-migratory (Ref. 4775).
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2012-07-10. Resilience: Medium (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Phylogeny and Morphologically Similar Fishes
Distinguished from other species of the family by the combination of characters described
References
Nafpaktitis et al. 1977
Uyeno et al. 1983
Hulley 1984b
Hulley 1986b
Gartner et al. 1987
Hulley, P.A. (1986) Myctophidae. p. 282-321. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Hulley, P.A. (1990) Myctophidae. p. 398-467. 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.
Wang, J.T.-M. and C.-T. Chen (2001) A review of lanternfishes (Families: Myctophidae and Neoscopelidae) and their distributions around Taiwan and the Tungsha islands with notes on seventeen new records. Zool. Stud. 40(2):103-126.
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