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Neobathyclupea melanoptera Prokofiev, Gon & Psomadakis, 2016

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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: questionable
Salinity: marine
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Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Probably distributed southward at least to the Seychelles Plateau. Two described specimens collected between Seychelles and Madagascar (10°21' S, 56°18' E) agree better with this spcies than any other of its congeners (Ref. 122569).
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Main Ref: Prokofiev, A.M., O. Gon and P.N. Psomadakis, 2016
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Acropomatiformes (Oceanic basses) > Bathyclupeidae (Deepsea herring)
Etymology: melanoptera: Name from Greek 'melas' for black and 'pteron' for wing or fin; referring to the characteristic black fin coloration..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; pelagic-oceanic; depth range 767 - 1120 m (Ref. 122569).   Tropical

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Indian Ocean: off Socotra Island and off Myanmar; possibly between Seychelles and Madagascar and off Myanmar.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 30.2 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 122569)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Anal soft rays: 26 - 27. This species is disttinguished by the following characters: head length 2.6 times in SL; mouth cavity uniformly black; snout is longer than orbit; dorsal rayed pterygiophore pattern /1/1/1/1+1/1/1+1/1/; anal-fin rays 26-27; gill-rakers on first gill arch 26-27; large pseudobranch (29-30 elements), all fins black (Ref. 122569).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Prokofiev, A.M., O. Gon and P.N. Psomadakis, 2016. A new species of Neobathyclupea from the northern Indian Ocean with comments on N. malayana (Teleostei, Perciformes, Bathyclupeidae). Zootaxa 4208(5):474-484. (Ref. 122569)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless




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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = No PD50 data   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.6   ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low to moderate vulnerability (27 of 100).