WoRMS taxon details
Argyropelecus aculeatus Valenciennes, 1850
AphiaID: 127306
AphiaID: 127306
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Stomiiformes (Order) > Sternoptychidae (Family) > Sternoptychinae (Subfamily) > Argyropelecus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Argyropelecus Cocco, 1829 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Argyropelachus aculeatus Valenciennes, 1850 (misspelling) Argyropelachus amabilis (Ogilby, 1888) (misspelling) Argyropelecus amabilis (Ogilby, 1888) Argyropelecus antrorsospinus Schultz, 1937 Argyropelecus caninus Garman, 1899 Argyropelecus micracanthus Parr, 1937 Sternoptychides amabilis Ogilby, 1888 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details] additional source: Welshman, D., S. Kohler, J. Black and L. Van Guelpen. 2003. An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details] additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Mauritius [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Reunion [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (37 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 10 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds on ostracods, copepods, decapod larvae and fish larvae [details] Distribution: Grand Banks to the Caribbean [details] Habitat: An oceanic and mesopelagic species concentrated at 300-600 m by day and 100-300 m by night. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Predators: Bluefin tuna, lancetfish [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127306 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Argyropelecus aculeatus Valenciennes, 1850. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127306 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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