Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
marino batipelagico; oceanodromo (Ref. 51243); distribuzione batimetrica 244 - 1948 m (Ref. 27311). Deep-water; 46°N - 52°S, 180°W - 180°E
Western Atlantic: 20°N to Brazil including the Gulf of Mexico, with expatriates in the slope water region. Eastern Atlantic: Mauritania to South Africa (Agulhas water pockets). Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951). Indo-Pacific: north and south equatorial currents and equatorial countercurrents, and in the east Australian and Agulhas currents. Also in the Eastern Central Pacific (Ref. 9325). Larvae found in Taiwan Strait (Ref. 43570). South China Sea and East China Sea (Ref.74511).
Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?, range 7 - ? cm
Max length : 8.5 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 5951)
Spine dorsali (totale): 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale): 12-14; Spine anali 0; Raggi anali molli: 17 - 20. Anal organs 13-14; males bear 5 luminous scales in supracaudal gland, females has 1-4 scales in infracaudal gland (Ref. 39633).
Neustonic to mesopelagic (Ref. 58302). High-oceanic, nyctoepipelagic at the surface and down to 125 m. Found between 425-750 m during the day. Sexually mature from about 65 mm (Ref. 4479). Proximate analysis (excluding head) reveals that lipid content is 2.0 % in fresh body weight and wax ester is 17.2 % in total lipids (Ref. 9193).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Hulley, P.A., 1990. Myctophidae. p. 398-467. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI; Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1. (Ref. 4479)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): 2.9 - 10.4, mean 6.6 °C (based on 1525 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01023 (0.00564 - 0.01857), b=3.25 (3.09 - 3.41), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.7 ±0.38 se; based on food items.
Resilienza (Ref.
120179): Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
