Salmon smooth-head

Salmon smooth-head
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
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]}

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. 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   978-0-203-50021-7 – via Google Books.
6. Priede, Imants G. (August 10, 2017). Deep-Sea Fishes: Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-316-03345-6 – 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   978-92-5-104826-9 – via Google Books.
11. "Conocara salmoneum". Global Biodiversity Information Facility .