Diagnostic Description
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Moderately elongate and slender. Slightly depressed anteriorly and compressed posteriorly. Color generally white, with peritoneum, branchial and buccal regions dark. Small specimens have faint vertical bars (Ref. 37039).
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- Arlene G. Sampang-Reyes
Life Cycle
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Contrary to Ref. 240 this species is an hermaphrodite (Ref. 7463).
Morphology
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Dorsal soft rays (total): 16 - 17; Analsoft rays: 13; Vertebrae: 50 - 51
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- Arlene G. Sampang-Reyes
Trophic Strategy
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Found on the continental rise and the abyss, commonly below 2,000 m, in water colder than 4°C. Larvae are probably pelagic in near-surface midwaters. Solitary, lurking bottom feeder. Probably piscivore (Ref. 4964).
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- Grace Tolentino Pablico
Biology
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Benthic (Ref. 58302). Found on the continental rise and the abyss, commonly below 2,000 m, in water colder than 4°C. Larvae are probably pelagic in near-surface midwaters. Solitary, lurking bottom feeder. Probably piscivore (Ref. 4964).
分布
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廣泛分布於全球溫帶至熱帶海域，臺灣則分布於東部海域。
利用
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深海魚類，不具經濟價值。
描述
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體延長而側扁。頭中等大小。眼小，吻端扁平，前上頜骨以及腭骨具發達且呈犬齒狀的齒列，上頜骨退化依附於前上頜骨。體被圓鱗，側線鱗65-78枚。鰓條骨8-9。第一鰓弓鰓耙數19-21枝。各鰭均無硬棘，胸鰭鰭條16根。背鰭軟條15-17，臀鰭軟條11-13，具脂鰭。體色為白色至淺灰色，頭部顏色略深。
棲地
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為棲息於水深1550-4903公尺深的深海魚類，以底棲性深海魚類為主食，另外偶而也發現會捕食頭足類動物。
Bathysaurus mollis
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Bathysaurus mollis is a species of fish in the family Bathysauridae, commonly called bathysaur or highfin lizardfish.
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Bathysaurus mollis" in FishBase. April 2012 version.
- Kenneth J. Sulak, Charles A. Wenner, George R. Sedberry, and Louis Van Guelpen, The life history and systematics of deep-sea lizard fishes, genus Bathysaurus (Synodontidae), Can. J. Zool. 63(3): 623–642 (1985).
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Bathysaurus mollis: Brief Summary
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Bathysaurus mollis is a species of fish in the family Bathysauridae, commonly called bathysaur or highfin lizardfish.
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Diet
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Solitary, lurking bottom feeder. Probably piscivorous
North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
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Distribution
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circumglobal between latitude 50°N-20°S except tropical eastern Pacific
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Habitat
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Found on the continental rise and the abyss, commonly below 2,000 m, in water colder than 4°C.
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Habitat
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benthic
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Habitat
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Known from seamounts and knolls
Stocks, K. 2009. Seamounts Online: an online information system for seamount biology. Version 2009-1. World Wide Web electronic publication.
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