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Baird's Smoothhead

Alepocephalus bairdii Goode & Bean 1879

Life Cycle

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Annual fecundity indeterminate (Ref. 51440).
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Trophic Strategy

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Found over ooze and sand bottoms (Ref. 4736). Feeds mostly on coelenterates, but also decapods, tunicates and fishes (Ref. 4736). Smaller fish feed more on polychaetes,copepods and amphipods while larger fish predated medusae, mysids, decapods, squid and fish and feeds primarily on pelagic organisms (Ref. 51904).
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Biology

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Found over ooze and sand bottoms (Ref. 4736). Bathypelagic (Ref. 58426). Feeds mostly on coelenterates, but also decapods, tunicates and fishes (Ref. 4736).
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Importance

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fisheries: minor commercial; price category: unknown; price reliability:
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