Cetonurus globiceps
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Gadiformes (Cod, Hakes and others)
Macrouridae (Grenadiers)
Cetonurus
Cetonurus globiceps
Description
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Characters
Elongate and attenuated body; large, inflated head; relatively small mouth; short trunk; broad and blunt snout; subterminal jaws; head about 20% of TL; snout length 33% to 41%, orbit 26% to 31%, premaxilla length 25% to 31%, chin barbel 2% to 6%, body depth at first dorsal fin origin 71% to 89% of head length; jaws with band of small, pointed teeth; first gill slit greatly restricted; gill rakers tuberculate, 11 to 14 on first arch; pectoral fin of moderate length with 16 to 19 rays; first dorsal fin with 9 to 12 rays, first ray splintlike, second serrated and spinous; second dorsal fin distinctly separated from first, with shorter rays than anal fin; pelvic fin with 8 to 10 rays; abdomen lacks naked area and light organ anterior to anus; anus and urogenital openings surrounded by broad, naked black area (periproct); scales small with slender spinules, except those on either side of second dorsal fin large and densely covered with spinules
Brown to dark brown, with gular and branchiostegal membranes darker; mouth, gill, and abdominal cavities black
Distribution
Gulf of Mexico and eastern Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Habitat Associations
Warm temperate to tropical Atlantic, Indian, and western Pacific Oceans; depth range 1,097 to 1,828 m
Biology
Copepods and fishes
Maximum known size 450 mm TL
Feeds on small fishes and planktonic crustaceans (Ref. 6187).
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2012-07-10. Resilience: Low (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Phylogeny and Morphologically Similar Fishes
Distinguished from other species of the family by the combination of characters described
References
Grey 1956
Iwamoto 1966
Marshall 1973
Sazonov and Shcherbachev 1985
Geistdoerfer 1986
Geistdoerfer, P. (1990) Macrouridae. p. 541-563. 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. 2.
Geistdoerfer, P. (1986) Macrouridae. p. 644-676. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2.
Iwamoto, T. and E. Anderson (1994) Review of the grenadiers (Teleostei: Gadiformes) of southern Africa, with descriptions of four new species. Ichthyol. Bull. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol. (61):1-28.
Iwamoto, T. and A. Williams (1999) Grenadiers (Pisces, Gadiformes) from the continental slope of western and northwestern Australia. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 51(3):105-243.
Cohen, D.M., A.W. Ebeling, T. Iwamoto, S.B. McDowell, N.B. Marshall, D.E. Rosen, P. Sonoda, W.H. Weed III and L.P. Woods (1973) Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Part six. New Haven, Sears Found. Mar. Res., Yale Univ.
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