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Bathylagidae (Deep-sea smelts)
Etymology: Bathylagus: Greek, bathys = deep + Greek, lagos = hare (Ref. 45335); pacificus: Named after the Pacific Ocean (Ref. 6885).
More on author: Gilbert.
Ambiente: milieu / zona climatica / distribuzione batimetrica / gamma di distribuzione
Ecologia
marino batipelagico; distribuzione batimetrica 600 - 7700 m (Ref. 50610), usually 600 - 800 m (Ref. 28981). Deep-water; 61°N - 27°N, 140°E - 114°W
Pacific: off the Pacific coast of northern Japan and the Bering Sea to the Gulf of Alaska southward to northern Baja California, Mexico.
Dimensione / Peso / Età
Maturità: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 25.0 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 4525)
Breve descrizione
Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria
Spine dorsali (totale) : 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 8 - 13; Spine anali: 0; Raggi anali molli: 15 - 25; Vertebre: 44 - 51. Body slender and compressed. Anal fin base long and about twice the length of dorsal fin base. Eye diameter about twice snout length. Upper end of gill slit reaching above midline of side of body. No knob-like process in interorbital space. Dorsoposterior edge of operculum not curved inward. Traces of detached scales black. Color black or dark brown; bluish black on head and ventral surfaces, and on peritoneum (Ref. 6885).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.
Does not undertake a diurnal, vertical migration. Feeds heavily on crustaceans (Ref. 4525). Oviparous, with planktonic eggs and larvae (Ref. 35604). Minimum cdepth from Ref. 028981.
Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino, 1984. The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p. (text). (Ref. 559)
Stato della Lista Rossa IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Minaccia per l'uomo
Harmless
Usi umani
Strumenti
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Stime basate su modelli
Indice di diversità filogenetica (Fonte Biblio. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5078 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00776 (0.00464 - 0.01298), b=3.07 (2.92 - 3.22), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245). |
Livello trofico (Fonte Biblio. 69278) |
3.3 ±0.42 se; based on food items. |
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Generation time |
7.8 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1 growth studies. |
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179) |
Basso, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 4.5 - 14 anni (K=0.14 (very tentative estimate)). |
Vulnerabilità della pesca (Ref. 59153) |
Moderate to high vulnerability (52 of 100). 🛈 |
Nutrienti (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 29.9 [10.3, 96.3] mg/100g; Iron = 0.365 [0.142, 1.282] mg/100g; Protein = 13.7 [10.4, 17.9] %; Omega3 = 0.395 [0.118, 1.350] g/100g; Selenium = 21 [7, 55] μg/100g; VitaminA = 38 [5, 303] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.672 [0.358, 1.397] mg/100g (wet weight); |