Kali indica
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Perciformes (Perciformes, Also Called the Acanthopteri)
Chiasmodontidae (Snaketooth Fishes)
Kali
Kali indica
Description
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Characters
Strongly arched jaws, two rows of jaw teeth, no tooth plates on gill arches. Dorsal profile of head evenly convex with large cavities. Snout strongly rounded. Middle sections of jaws separated when mouth closed, lower jaw extends beyond upper jaw. Supramaxilla absent. Jaw teeth needlelike, moderately to strongly recurved, usually depressible, inner row very large, recurved, barbed. Upper jaw with 6-12 teeth in outer row and 3 or 4 in inner row. Lower jaw with 6-10 teeth in outer row and 3 or 4 in inner row. Palatine teeth long, needlelike, in a single row of 3-7 teeth. Vomerine teeth absent. Branchiostegal rays 6. Measurements (% SL): head length 23%-28%, snout length 7%-10%, eye diameter 3%-6%, interorbital length 5%-7%, upper jaw length 18%-23%, pre-dorsal-fin length 26%-31%, pre-anal-fin length 50%-58%, pectoral fin length 13%-22%, body depth 12%-18%, caudal peduncle depth about 4%. Pectoral fin with 12 or (rarely) 13 rays. First dorsal fin with 10-12 spines, second dorsal fin with 1 spine and 22-24 rays. Anal fin with 1 spine and 21-25 rays. Lateral line with about 40 pairs of pores and five or more palps between each pair. Vertebrae 37-41.
Color is black.
Distribution
In the western Atlantic off Bermuda and in the Yucatán Channel.
Although it has not been reported from the Gulf of Mexico, it may occur there.
Habitat Associations
Tropical and subtropical waters, usually captured at depths greater than 1,500 m.
Biology
Maximum known size is 262 mm SL.
The shallowest depth record is based on a single Gargaropteron-staged individual which was taken in the Yucatan Channel, in 0-124 m (Museum: RHB 1290).
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2014-07-14.
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: of no interest.
References
Johnson 1969
Johnson and Cohen 1974
Johnson and Keene 1986a,b
McEachran and Sutton 2002
Johnson, R.K. and M.J. Keene (1990) Chiasmodontidae. p. 899-904. 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.
Melo, M.R.S. (2008) The genus Kali Lloyd (Chiasmodontidae: Teleostei) with description of new two species, and the revalidation of K. kerberti Weber. Zootaxa 1747:1-33.
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