Cyclothone signata

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Cyclothone signata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Stomiiformes
Family: Gonostomatidae
Genus: Cyclothone
Species:
C. signata
Binomial name
Cyclothone signata
Garman, 1899

Cyclothone signata, the showy bristlemouth, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Cyclothone. [1] [2]

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Cyclothone alba was originally described as a subspecies of C. signata: Cyclothone signata alba, by Brauer in 1906. [3]

Description

C. signata is disruptively colored, [4] typically being either gray or transparent. [5]

Ecology

The species is usually found to be bimodally distributed among the shallow and deep ends of the mesopelagic zone, [4] and is thought to migrate vertically between them, feeding in the shallow areas, and descending to the deeper ocean to rest. [6]

The species is oviparous. [2] Encounters with the species are rare, but one sample, taken off the coast of the Gulf of Maine in 1915, measured 23mm. [5] [7]

References

  1. ↑ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Cyclothone signata". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Archived from the original on 2011-10-29. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  2. 1 2 "Cyclothone signata, Showy bristlemouth". Fishbase . Archived from the original on 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  3. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cyclothone signata Garman, 1899". World Register of Marine Species . Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  4. 1 2 DeWitt, Floyd A. (1972-03-08). "Bathymetric Distributions of Two Common Deep-Sea Fishes, Cyclothone acclinidens and C. signata, off Southern California" . Copeia. 1972 (1): 88–96. doi:10.2307/1442785. JSTOR   1442785.
  5. 1 2 "Cyclothone". Gulf of Maine Research Institute . Archived from the original on 2003-05-24. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  6. ↑ DeWitt, Floyd A.; Cailliet, Gregor M. (1972-12-29). "Feeding Habits of Two Bristlemouth Fishes, Cyclothone acclinidens and C. signata (Gonostomatidae)" . Copeia. 1972 (4): 868. doi:10.2307/1442749. JSTOR   1442749.
  7. ↑ Bigelow, Henry B.; Schroeder, William C. (1953). Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. United States Government Printing Office. pp. 146–147. ISBN   978-0598917881.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)


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