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Etymology: Halieutopsis: Greek, halieutis = fisher + Greek, opsis = apperance (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Smith & Radcliffe.

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

marino batidemersal; rango de profundidad ? - 512 m (Ref. 40825). Deep-water

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Indo-West Pacific: Taiwan, Philippines. Indonesia and western Australia.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.5 cm SL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 40825)

Short description Morfología | Morfometría

Radios blandos dorsales (total): 6; Radios blandos anales: 4; Vértebra: 18. Disk rounded and compressed, with cranium moderately elevated and bulbous rostrum rising slightly above it and extending anterior to mouth. Ventral surface without tubercles. Very wide mouth with lower jaw projecting. Trilobed esca with masses of short filaments, except dorsal tip of dorsal lobe. Cephalic lateral line scale counts: preopercular 3; subopercular 6-7; dorsolateral branch of subopercular 3-4; supraorbital 9. Lateral line scale counts on body 9-10; tail 11-13. Fins weak; anal relatively long, reaching base of caudal (Ref. 40825).

Minimum depth from Ref. 58018.

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

Main reference Upload your references | Referencias | Coordinador : Ho, Hsuan-Ching | Colaboradores

Bradbury, M.G., 1988. Rare fishes of the deep-sea genus Halieutopsis: a review with descriptions of four new species (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae). Fieldiana 44:1-22. (Ref. 40825)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

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Halieutopsis simula (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912)