Salmon smooth-head

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Salmon smooth-head
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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 (2.40 ft). [9] It has 25–27 anal soft rays. [10]

Habitat

The salmon smooth-head lives in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean; [11] it is bathypelagic, living at depths of 2,400–4,500 m (7,900–14,800 ft). [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Museum), Percy (Butch) Hulley (South Africa (July 11, 2012). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Conocara salmoneum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
  2. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Conocara salmoneum (Gill & Townsend, 1897)". www.marinespecies.org.
  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 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Priede, Imants G. (August 10, 2017). "Deep-Sea Fishes: Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries". Cambridge University Press – 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. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Conocara salmoneum (Gill & Townsend, 1897)". www.marinespecies.org.
  10. ↑ "Conocara salmoneum, Salmon smooth-head". www.fishbase.se.
  11. ↑ Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United (August 19, 2002). "The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – via Google Books.
  12. ↑ "Conocara salmoneum (Gill & Townsend, 1897)". www.gbif.org.
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