FB-2308 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2308 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Trachichthyiformes Anoplogastridae Anoplogaster Anoplogaster cornuta (Valenciennes, 1833) Skerptand Almindelig troldfisk Troldfisk Common fangtooth Common sabertooth Fangtooth Horned fang-tooth fish Ogrefish Harilik mõõkhammas Ogre Bjúgtanni Onikinme саблезуб Pez abisal con colmillos Pez con colmillos Pez con colomillos Podočničarka Scherptand 叶鳞金眼鲷 葉鱗金眼鯛 角高体金眼鲷 角高體金眼鯛 Anoplogaster cornutus (Valenciennes, 1833) Caulolepis longidens Gill, 1883 Caulolepis subulidens Garman, 1899 Hoplostethus cornutus Valenciennes, 1833 1991-02-26 2007-07-26 ASIH (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists)0 Ontogeny and systematics of fishes. Based on an international symposium dedicated to the memory of Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom, 15-18 August 1983, La Jolla, California. Spec. Publ. Am. Soc. Ichthyol. Herpetol. 1:ix, 760 p. (Ref. 63) Whitehead, P.J.P., M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. 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(Ref. 137577) FB-pic-2308-51404 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/gif FAO 2009-07-23 2009-07-23 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2308 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Ancor_u1.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Ancor_u1.gif FB-GeneralDescr-2308 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1991-02-26 00:00:00 2007-07-26 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2308 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Bathypelagic (Ref. 58426). Adults occur mainly between 500 and 2,000 m, but ranging from near the surface (young) to 5,000 m. Form schools, swim in small groups or solitary. Carnivorous (Ref. 27155), feeding on crustaceans when young and on fish mainly when adults (Ref. 4737). Serve as food for pelagic fishes such as tuna, albacore, and marlin (Ref. 5951). Oviparous, with planktonic larvae (Ref. 36624). Post, A. 1986 Anoplogasteridae. p. 767-768. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 4737) FB-DiagnosticDescr-2308 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1991-02-26 00:00:00 2000-01-26 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2308 Body uniformly blackish or dark blackish brown (Ref. 27363). Lateral line an open groove, bridged by scales at intervals. Swim bladder present. Juveniles: long cephalic and preopercular spine; big eye; teeth on jaws small, multiserial on premaxilaries; no teeth on palatine and vomer; gill rakers long and slender. Adult: no cephalic and preopercular spines; eye small; gill rakers tooth-like in groups on bony bases. Whitehead, P.J.P., M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) 1986 Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vols. I-III:1473 p. (Ref. 232) FB-Morphology-2308 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1991-02-26 00:00:00 2000-01-26 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2308 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 17 - 20; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 7 - 9; Vertebrae: 28 Whitehead, P.J.P., M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) 1986 Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vols. I-III:1473 p. (Ref. 232) FB-Distribution-2308 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1991-02-26 00:00:00 2020-11-06 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2308 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Worldwide in tropical to temperate seas. In the western Atlantic it is also known from the Flemish Cap (Ref. 5951). 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) FB-Uses-2308 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1991-02-26 00:00:00 2007-07-26 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2308 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat fisheries: of no interest Paxton, J.R. 1999 Order Beryciformes. Anoplogastridae. Fangtooths. p. 2210. In K.E. Carpenter and V.H. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the WCP. Vol. 4. Bony fishes part 2 (Mugilidae to Carangidae). FAO, Rome. FB-LifeCycle-2308 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1991-02-26 00:00:00 2007-07-26 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ FAO General public http://www.fishbase.org//Reproduction/FishReproSummary.php?ID=2308&StockCode=2504 Oviparous (Ref. 36624). Post, A. 1986 Anoplogasteridae. p. 767-768. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 4737) FB-TrophicStrategy-2308 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1991-02-26 00:00:00 2008-01-15 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public cornuta http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Bathypelagic (Ref. 58426). Adults at greater depths than juveniles. Young feed mainly on crustaceans. Adults feed on fish (Ref.4737). Contact chemoreception may be the primary system for sensing and locating prey organisms in which the fangtooth presumably scull slowly until it bumps into a potential prey (Ref. 40644). Post, A. 1986 Anoplogasteridae. p. 767-768. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 4737) FB-Size-2308 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1991-02-26 00:00:00 2007-07-26 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2308 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses 18.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 5951)) Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott 1988 Atlantic fishes of Canada. Can. Bull. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 219:731 p. (Ref. 5951) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-2308 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1991-02-26 00:00:00 2007-07-26 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2308 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats bathypelagic; marine; depth range 2 - 4992 m (Ref. 50610), usually 500 - 2000 m Russian Academy of Sciences 2000 Catalog of vertebrates of Kamchatka and adjacent waters. Kamchatsky Pechatny Dvor, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. 166 p. (Ref. 50610)