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Bythitidae (Livebearing brotulas)
Etymology: Barathronus: Greek, barathron = abyss + ending -ites, that lives there; the Barathron was a deep pit in Athens where criminals were thrown; 1849 +Greek, onos = hake.
Eponymy: The research vessel ‘Anton Bruun’, from which the holotypes of these species were collected, is named after the Danish oceanographer and marine biologist Dr Anton Frederik Bruun (above). [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Nielsen.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
marino batipelágico; rango de profundidad 0 - 1710 m (Ref. 123477). Deep-water
Southwest Indian Ocean. High Seas only.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.9 cm SL (female)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 81; Radios blandos anales: 73; Vértebra: 86. This species is distinguished from the other five Barathronus species with pigmented peritoneum by the following set of characters: D 81, A 73, pectoral-fin rays 25; anterior gill arch with 33 long rakers; vertebrae, precaudal 36, total 86; no ventral flexure of anteriormost vertebrae; vomer with 3 fangs; with a distinct brown streak in midline of body and a concentration of brown pigment between dorsal fin and nape; rounded, 1 mm long otoliths seen through of the skull (Ref. 121928).
Cross section: compressed.
Rare species (Ref. 34024).
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Nielsen, J.G., 2019. Revision of the circumglobal genus Barathronus (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae) with a new species from the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa 4679(2):231-256. (Ref. 121928)
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 = 0.5005 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00468 (0.00186 - 0.01174), b=3.03 (2.81 - 3.25), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
3.2 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179) |
Alto, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo inferior a 15 meses (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈 |