Kali macrodon
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Perciformes (Perciformes, Also Called the Acanthopteri)
Chiasmodontidae (Snaketooth Fishes)
Kali
Kali macrodon
Description
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Characters
Strongly arched jaws, two rows of jaw teeth, tooth plates on first three gill arches. Dorsal profile of head slightly convex with large cavities. Snout very acute. Supramaxilla absent. Middle sections of jaws widely separated when mouth closed. Lower jaw extends beyond upper jaw. Jaw teeth needlelike, moderately recurved, and usually depressible, with inner row barbed and larger. Upper jaw with 20-24 teeth in outer row and 6-9 in inner row. Lower jaw with 18-31 teeth in outer row and 7-10 in inner row. Palatine teeth long and needlelike, in a single row, numbering 5-12. Vomerine teeth absent. First gill arch with 15 gill teeth. Branchiostegal rays number 6. Measurements (% SL): head length 20%-26%, snout length 8%-10%, eye diameter 3%-5%, interorbital width 5%-7%, upper jaw length 15%-16%, pre-dorsal-fin length 27%-33%, pre-anal-fin length 50%-56%, pectoral fin length 16%-24%, body depth 9%-13%, caudal peduncle depth 3%-5%. Pectoral fins with 10 or 11 (usually 11) rays. First dorsal fin with 10 to 12 spines, second dorsal fin with 1 spine and 22 to 25 rays. Anal fin with 1 spine and 22 to 25 rays. Vertebrae number 35 to 40.
Color is black.
Distribution
Off North Carolina, in the northern and southern Gulf of Mexico
In the northern and southern Gulf of Mexico
Habitat Associations
Tropical and subtropical waters, usually captured at depths greater than 1,500 m
Biology
Maximum known size is 260 mm SL
Most adults were caught at depths exceeding 1,500 m (Ref. 6764).
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2009-02-04.
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: of no interest.
References
Parr 1931 (as Dolichodon macrodon)
Parr 1933 (as Hemicyclodon macrodon)
Johnson 1969
Johnson and Cohen 1974
Johnson and Keene 1986a
Johnson and Keene 1986b
McEachran and Sutton 2002
Johnson, R.K. and M.J. Keene (1986) Chiasmodontidae. p. 731-734. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
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.
Bogutskaya, N.G. (2007) Preliminary assignment of coordinates to type localities in the Catalog of Fishes. Unpublished dbf file.
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