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Argentinidae (Argentines or herring smelts)
Etymology: Argentina: Latin, argentus = silver (Ref. 45335); georgei: Named for George Clipper who provided efficient assistance to the authors of this species (Ref. 40914).
Eponymy: George E Clipper was a technician in charge of x-raying fishes and reading the resultant radiographs at Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Systematics Laboratory, USNM. The authors expressed their gratitude for his ‘efficient assistance’. (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on authors: Cohen & Atsaides.
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
marin bathydémersal; profondeur 220 - 457 m (Ref. 37039), usually 274 - 402 m (Ref. 40914). Deep-water; 9°C - 17°C (Ref. 37039)
Western Central Atlantic: east coast of Florida to the Dry Tortugas, Bahama Banks, and off the northern coast of Cuba, the Antilles, and Central America.
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 14.6 cm SL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 37039)
Épines dorsales (Total) : 0; Rayons mous dorsaux (Total) : 11; Épines anales: 0; Rayons mous anaux: 10 - 11. Dark brown with black mid-dorsal stripe dorsally; light with large, dark chromatophores forming band midventrally from isthmus to vent (Ref. 37039).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.
Found over mud and mud-shell bottoms (Ref. 37039).
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
McEachran, J.D. and J.D. Fechhelm, 1998. Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico. Volume 1: Myxiniformes to Gasterosteiformes. University of Texas Press, Austin. 1112p. (Ref. 37039)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5001 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00363 (0.00162 - 0.00814), b=3.17 (2.98 - 3.36), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.3 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Résilience (Réf. 120179) |
Milieu, temps minimum de doublement de population : 1,4 à 4,4 années (Assuming tmax>3). |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
Low to moderate vulnerability (28 of 100). 🛈 |