Ceratoscopelus maderensis
No common name
NS
G5
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Taxonomic Hierarchy
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Myctophiformes (Lanternfishes)
Myctophidae (Lanternfishes)
Ceratoscopelus
Ceratoscopelus maderensis
Description
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Characters
Body shape: elongated.
Distribution
N temperate S to N 31.
Habitat Associations
Marine. bathypelagic. depth range 51-1480 m.
Biology
To 7 cm.
High-oceanic, schooling, found between 650-700 m during the day and between 51-250 m at night with size stratification with depth (Ref. 4479). Depth range from 460-1082 m1 in the eastern Ionian Sea (Ref. 56504). Juveniles are nyctoepipelagic at the surface. Feeds on copepods and adult or larval forms of other planktonic crustaceans (Ref. 4775).
Reproductive mode: dioecism; fertilization: external.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2012-07-10. Resilience: Medium (tmax=2; Fec=2,134; K=1.3-3.65;).
References
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.
Goren, M. and B.S. Galil (2015) A checklist of the deep sea fishes of the Levant Sea, Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa 3994(4):507-530. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.4.2
Halliday, R.G., K.J. Clark and D.E. Themelis (2015) The biology of Benthosema glaciale and Ceratoscopelus maderensis (Myctophidae) in the Slope Sea off Nova Scotia, Canada. J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci. 47:75-89. DOI: 10.2960/J.v47.m708
Badouvas, N., S. Somarakis and K. Tsagarakis (2022) Length-weight relations of 16 mesopelagic fishes (Actinopterygii: Myctophiformes and Stomiiformes) from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Acta Ichthyol. Pisc. 52(4):279-283. DOI: 10.3897/aiep.52.97577
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