Flagellostomias boureei
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Stomiiformes
Stomiidae (Dragonfishes)
Flagellostomias
Flagellostomias boureei
Description
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Characters
Elongate and very slender, with a blunt, nonprotrusible snout; long chin barbel bearing a swollen bulb and filaments; abdominal pelvic fins; preorbital and suborbital luminous organs absent; body depth 6.2% to 11.1% and head length 11.4% to 15.4% of SL; lower jaw neither longer than upper jaw nor upturned at tip; premaxilla with six fanglike teeth; lower jaws with one large, fanglike tooth and four smaller teeth; chin barbel 50% to 75% of SL; pectoral fin consists of 1 long, free ray and 8 to 11 short, joined rays; dorsal fin has 14 to 17 rays, and anal fin has 21 to 26 rays; pelvic fin has 7 rays; IP number 8 to 10, PV number 31 to 34, and VAV number 14 to 16; OV number 30 to 32, VAL number 12 to 17, and AC number 15 to 18; vertebrae number about 65
Color is black
Distribution
Subtropical and warm temperate waters north of 15°N in the western Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
Habitat Associations
Worldwide in subtropical to warm temperate seas; depth range not specified
Biology
Maximum known size is 320 mm SL
Meso- (Ref. 4468) and bathypelagic (Ref. 58302).
Reproductive mode: dioecism; fertilization: external; nonguarders (open water/substratum egg scatterers); parental care: none.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2013-05-20. 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
Morrow and Gibbs 1964
Murdy et al. 1983
Gibbs 1984d
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.
Bogutskaya, N.G. (2007) Preliminary assignment of coordinates to type localities in the Catalog of Fishes. Unpublished dbf file.
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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