Diagnostic Description
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Body silvery, jaws and opercle blackish. The inside of the mouth and gill cavities black.
Morphology
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Dorsal spines (total): 44 - 46; Dorsal soft rays (total): 104 - 109; Analspines: 2; Analsoft rays: 93 - 102; Vertebrae: 153 - 158
Trophic Strategy
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Found on continental slope and underwater rises. Juveniles mesopelagic.
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- Grace Tolentino Pablico
Biology
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Found on continental slope and underwater rises. Juveniles mesopelagic.
Diet
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Feeds on crustaceans (mainly prawns and euphausiids), small fishes (e.g. Maurolicus) and squid
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Distribution
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North Atlantic: off Newfoundland (Canada), Bermuda, New England (USA), Middle Atlantic Ridges, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Madeira, and Canary Is
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Habitat
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bathydemersal
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Habitat
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depth range 200 - 900 m
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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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