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Psenes pellucidus

Bluefin Driftfish
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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes) Perciformes (Perciformes, Also Called the Acanthopteri) Nomeidae (Driftfishes) Psenes Psenes pellucidus (Bluefin Driftfish)

Description

This species account was compiled from Composite (multiple sources) (Carpenter, K.E. (ed.) 2002. The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. FAO, Rome.) and processed using AI-assisted text extraction. It may contain errors in spelling, punctuation, or formatting. When citing, please reference the original source rather than this page. Learn more about our species accounts.

Characters

Body shape: short and / or deep. Adults dark brown to deep purple in color; eye dark blue. Young translucent with brown spots; first dorsal fin dark (Ref. 4412).

Distribution

Sargasso Sea, and circumglobal in warm waters of all

Habitat Associations

Marine. bathypelagic.

Biology

To 80 cm.
Oceanic species (Ref. 6891). Associated with jellyfish (Ref. 7251) and floating weed patches (Ref. 6891). Large adults may be benthic on continental slopes (Ref. 6891). Feeds on zooplankton and small pelagic fishes (Ref. 4777).
Reproductive mode: dioecism; fertilization: external; nonguarders (open water/substratum egg scatterers); parental care: none.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2013-01-13. Resilience: Low (Assuming tmax>10).

Commercial or Environmental Importance

Fisheries: commercial.

References

Haedrich, R.L. (1986) Nomeidae. p. 846-850. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Fitch, J.E. and R.J. Lavenberg (1968) Deep-water teleostean fishes of California. California Natural History Guides:25. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California. 115 p.
May, J.L. and J.G.H. Maxwell (1986) Trawl fish from temperate waters of Australia. CSIRO Division of Fisheries Research, Tasmania. 492 p.
Golani, D., L. Orsi Relini, E. Massutí and J.-P. Quignard (2002) CIESM Atlas of Exotic Species in the Mediterranean. Vol. 1. Fishes. F. Briand (ed.). 256 pages. CIESM Publishers, Monaco.
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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