Eustomias lipochirus
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Taxonomic Hierarchy
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Stomiiformes
Stomiidae (Dragonfishes)
Eustomias
Eustomias lipochirus
Description
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Characters
Elongate and slender; dorsal fin has 23 or 24 rays, anal fin has 38 to 40 rays; pelvic fin is abdominal and has 7 rays; IP number 7, PV number 28 or 29, and VAV number 12 or 13; OV number 28 or 29, VAL number 13 or 14, and AC number 19 or 20; body depth is 7.8% to 8.5% and head length is 12.5% to 14.7% of SL; lower jaw is about equal to upper jaw in length and is not upturned at tip; premaxilla and lower jaw have few, mostly depressible teeth; chin barbel is 8 % to 15 % of SL with slender stem, generally two very small branches, and single terminal bulb with lump or digitiform protuberance on one side of terminal end; deep ventral groove extends along belly; preorbital and suborbital luminous organs are absent; Po is present; pectoral fins are absent
Color is black; barbel stem and bulb are unpigmented, or stem is pigmented proximally to origin of branches
Distribution
In the western Atlantic it occurs off Bermuda and in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
Habitat Associations
Tropical Atlantic
Biology
Maximum known size is 88 mm SL
Reproductive mode: dioecism; fertilization: external; nonguarders (open water/substratum egg scatterers); parental care: none.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2018-10-11. Resilience: Medium (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Phylogeny and Morphologically Similar Fishes
Distinguished from other species of the family by the combination of characters described
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: of no interest.
References
Morrow and Gibbs 1964
Gibbs 1986d
Sutton and Hopkins 1996
Gibbs, R.H. Jr. (1986) Melanostomiidae. p. 236-243. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Gibbs, R.H. and M.A. Barnett (1990) Melanostomiidae. p. 308-337. 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.
Patzner, R.A. (2008) Reproductive strategies of fish. pp. 311-350. In Rocha, M.J., A. Arukwe and B.G. Kapoor (eds). Fish reproduction: cytology, biology and ecology. Science Publisher, Inc. Oxford. 631 p.
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