Salmon smooth-head

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Salmon smooth-head
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Alepocephaliformes
Family: Alepocephalidae
Genus: Conocara
Species:
C. salmoneum
Binomial name
Conocara salmoneum
(Gill & Townsend, 1897)
Synonyms [2]
  • Conocara salmonea(Gill & Townsend, 1897)
  • Ericara salmoneaGill & Townsend, 1897
  • Ericara salmoneumGill & Townsend, 1897
  • Xenognathus profundorumGilbert, 1915

The salmon smooth-head (Conocara salmoneum), also called the deepsea slickhead, [3] is a species of fish in the family Alepocephalidae. [4] [5] [6]

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Description

The salmon smooth-head is brownish in colour. [7] Its head is large, about a third of its length. [8] Its maximum length is 73 centimetres (2 ft 5 in). [2] It has 25–27 anal soft rays. [9]

Habitat

The salmon smooth-head lives in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean; [10] it is bathypelagic, living at depths of 2,400–4,500 m (7,900–14,800 ft). [11]

References

  1. Hulley, P. (2015). "Conocara salmoneum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2015: e.T15148566A15148641. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T15148566A15148641.en . Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  2. 1 2 Bailly, Nicolas (2008). "Conocara salmoneum (Gill & Townsend, 1897)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
  3. "Resource Inventory of Marine and Estuarine Fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: A Checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean Species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border". U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, National Biological Information Infrastructure. August 19, 2005 via Google Books.
  4. "Boletin de Ciencias Marinas". University of Miami Press. August 19, 1985 via Google Books.
  5. Richards, William J. (August 8, 2005). Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic, Two Volume Set. CRC Press. ISBN   9780203500217 via Google Books.
  6. Priede, Imants G. (August 10, 2017). Deep-Sea Fishes: Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9781316033456 via Google Books.
  7. "Conocara salmoneum | NBN Atlas". species.nbnatlas.org.
  8. "Marine Species Identification Portal : Salmon smooth-head - Conocara salmonea". species-identification.org.
  9. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Conocara salmoneum". FishBase .
  10. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. August 19, 2002. ISBN   9789251048269 via Google Books.
  11. "Conocara salmoneum". Global Biodiversity Information Facility .