Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
marino batipelagico; oceanodromo (Ref. 51243); distribuzione batimetrica 40 - 500 m (Ref. 5951). Deep-water; 48°N - 52°S, 79°W - 153°W
Eastern Atlantic: Morocco to Mauritania and also in Angola; west of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa (Ref. 4066). Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951). Western Atlantic: USA to Argentina but with lower abundance in the South Sargasso Sea and absent in the minimum region off Brazil. Also known in the equatorial waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Tropical regions of the Atlantic up to 38°S (Ref. 47377).
Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?, range 5 - ? cm
Max length : 7.5 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 47377); common length : 7.2 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 4479)
Spine dorsali (totale) : 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 12 - 14; Spine anali: 0; Raggi anali molli: 17 - 19.
High-oceanic, meso- (Ref. 4479, 75154) and epipelagic (Ref. 58302). Found between 225-450 m during the day and between 40-225 m at night (Ref. 4479). Reach sexual maturity at 5 cm (Ref. 47377).
Hulley, P.A., 1990. Myctophidae. p. 398-467. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI; Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1. (Ref. 4479)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES (Ref. 128078)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
115969): 11.1 - 24.4, mean 17 (based on 787 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00871 (0.00387 - 0.01962), b=3.11 (2.92 - 3.30), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.5 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilienza (Ref.
120179): Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).