Dolicholagus longirostris
No common name
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G5
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Argentiniformes
Bathylagidae (Deepsea Smelts)
Dolicholagus
Dolicholagus longirostris
Description
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Characters
Body shape: elongated. Head and body silver when fresh; no scale pocket markings; lateral line indistinct (Ref. 13608). Slender body. Jaws rounded and subequal at the tips (Ref. 37473). Body strongly elongated with almost equal depth. Caudal peduncle short and relatively narrow. Pectorals short, far from reaching origin of dorsal fin. Radial pattern noticeable at the hind lower part of operculum. Few gill rakers on the inner surface of epibranchial of first gill arch (Ref. 33679).
Distribution
Widespread, tropical to temperate in area.
Habitat Associations
Marine. bathypelagic. depth range 200-1497 m.
Biology
To 18 cm SL.
Mesopelagic (Ref. 58302). Usually caught in small aggregations (Ref. 6345). Exhibits daily vertical migrations (Ref. 6345). Feeds on plankton (Ref. 6345).
Reproductive mode: dioecism; fertilization: external; nonguarders. Oviparous (Ref. 35604).
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2014-07-10. Resilience: Medium (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: of no interest.
References
Cohen, D.M. (1990) Bathylagidae. p. 239-240. 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.
Cohen, D.M. (1984) Bathylagidae. p. 392-394. 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, Volume 1. Unesco, Paris.
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.
Shinohara, G., H. Endo and K. Matsuura (1996) Deep-water fishes collected from the Pacific Coast of Northern Honshu, Japan. Mem. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo (29):153-185.
Kobylyanskiy, S.G. (1985) Material for the revision of the genus Bathylagus Gunther (Bathylagidae): the group of "light" deepsea smelts. J. Ichthyol. 25(2):1-17.
Moser, H.G. and E.H. Ahlstrom (1996) Bathylagidae: blacksmelts and smoothtounges. p. 188-207. In H.G. Moser (ed.) The early stages of fishes in the California Current Region. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Atlas No. 33. 1505 p.
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