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Gigantactinidae (Whipnose anglers)
Etymology: Gigantactis: Greek, 'gigas' or 'gigantos' = gigantic + Greek, 'aktis' = ray (referring to the unusually long first dorsal-fin spine that functions as a lure in this genus) (Ref. 86949).
Eponymy: Dr John Richard Paxton (d: 1938) is an American-born Australian ichthyologist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
marino batipelágico; rango de profundidad 540 - 1500 m (Ref. 86949). Deep-water
Southwest Pacific.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 29.5 cm SL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 58502)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 6 - 7; Radios blandos anales: 5 - 6. Metamorphosed females distinguished by the following characteristics: have filaments on the dorsal surface of head just behind the base of the illicium; length of illicium 168-198% SL; presence of short filaments on base of illicium; escal bulb gradually tapering into a conical, spinulose darkly pigmented distal prolongation, length 12-28% SL; escal bulb and distal prolongation bearing low unpigmented papillae; short filaments present on distal prolongation, absent on base of escal bulb; absence of posterior pair of close set illicial appendage; long dentary teeth (longest tooth 3.4-7.1% SL), three or four longitudinal series in posterior part of jaw; short rays of caudal fin (27.5-35% SL) (Ref. 86949).
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep.
Bathy- and mesopelagic species (Ref. 75154).
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley, 1989. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p. (Ref. 7300)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
Pesquerías: sin interés
Herramientas
Informes especiales
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.01995 (0.00906 - 0.04395), b=3.01 (2.83 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
4.2 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
Low to moderate vulnerability (26 of 100). 🛈 |