Lestrolepis intermedia
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Aulopiformes
Paralepididae (Barracudinas)
Lestrolepis
Lestrolepis intermedia
Description
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Characters
Elongate, slender, and moderately compressed body; lower jaw curved upward; dorsal fin closer to origin of anal fin than to pelvic fin insertion; body depth 5.7-6.8% SL; head length 19.4-20.3% SL; snout length 10.4-11% SL; premaxilla with 3 depressible canine teeth anteriorly and 55-96 small, fixed uniserial teeth posteriorly; lower jaw with 6-9 moderate-sized canine teeth, each accompanied by one short, fixed canine tooth; vomer lacks teeth; palatine with 4-8 large depressible teeth, each accompanied by one short fixed tooth; gill membranes joined anterior to posterior tip of upper jaw and free of isthmus; pectoral fin inserts on lower flank with 11 rays; dorsal fin originates posterior to anus with 9 rays; pelvic fin inserts at about midlength; anal fin with 41 or 42 rays; one pair of luminous ducts extend on either side of ventral midline from gill covers to base of pelvic fin; scales lacking except for embedded lateral line scales; lateral line scale sections diamond shaped, about 1.75 times longer than high, and number 69-77; tympana (osseous scale plates) Y-shaped, narrow posteriorly and forked anteriorly; vertebrae number 91-93
Body is colorless except for mid-dorsal band of stellate chromatophores, two ventral black streaks between pectoral fin and pelvic fin, and prominent black spot anterior to eye
Distribution
Southeastern United States, from about 35°N, to French Guiana, about 5°N
Northern and eastern Gulf of Mexico
Habitat Associations
Tropical to warm temperate seas, from surface to about 200 m
Biology
Bathypelagic fishes
Maximum known size is 148 mm SL
Oceanic species (Ref. 26340). Epi- to bathypelagic, perhaps benthopelagic (Ref. 58302). Young found between 10-200 m while juvenile and adult specimens between 400-800 m (Ref. 4473). Minimum depth reported taken from Ref. 4473.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2014-07-15. Resilience: Medium (Assuming tmax>3).
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
Rofen 1966a
Rass 1971
Uyeno et al. 1983
Post 1986a
Boschung 1992
Post, A. (1986) Paralepididae. p. 274-278. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Post, A. (1990) Paralepididae. p. 373-384. 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.
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.
Mundy, B.C. (2005) Checklist of the fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Mus. Bull. Zool. (6):1-704.
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