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Bythitidae (Livebearing brotulas)
Etymology: Barathronus: Greek, barathron = abyss + ending -ites, that lives there; the Barathron was a deep pit in Athens where criminals were thrown; 1849 +Greek, onos = hake; linsi: Named for Prof. Jorge Eduardo Lins de Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
- UFRN); noun in genitive case.
Eponymy: Dr Jorge Eduardo Lins de Oliveira is an oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Ambiente: milieu / zona climatica / distribuzione batimetrica / gamma di distribuzione
Ecologia
marino batidemersale; distribuzione batimetrica 1964 - 2045 m (Ref. 103259). Deep-water
Southwest Atlantic: Brazil.
Dimensione / Peso / Età
Maturità: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 10.1 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 103259)
Breve descrizione
Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria
Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 78; Raggi anali molli: 69; Vertebre: 78. This species is distinguished from the other four Barathronus species with a transparent peritoneum by the following set of characters: D 78, A 69, pectoral-fin rays 21; vertebrae, precaudal 33, total 78; vomer with eight fangs; anterior gill arch with 25 long rakers; predorsal length 42% SL; absence of pair of bulbs at base of penis; with a ventral flexure of anterior vertebrae; fresh or newly caught specimen overall yellowish to white reddish and lack of black pigment both in skin and peritoneum; otolith oval, 1.7 times as long as thick and with small centrally placed undivided sulcus (Ref. 121928).
Cross section: compressed.
Ciclo vitale e comportamento di accoppiamento
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecondità | Larve
Nielsen, J.G., 2019. Revision of the circumglobal genus Barathronus (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae) with a new species from the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa 4679(2):231-256. (Ref. 121928)
Stato della Lista Rossa IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Minaccia per l'uomo
Harmless
Usi umani
Pesca: di nessun interesse
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Stime basate su modelli
Indice di diversità filogenetica (Fonte Biblio.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5005 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00102 (0.00046 - 0.00225), b=3.06 (2.88 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref.
93245).
Livello trofico (Fonte Biblio.
69278): 3.4 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio.
120179): Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Vulnerabilità della pesca (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
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