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Bathylagus euryops Goode & Bean, 1896 
AphiaID: 126719

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Osmeriformes (Order) > Bathylagidae (Family) > Bathylagus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Bathylagus Günther, 1878
Synonymised
taxa
  Bathylagus benedicti Goode & Bean, 1896
Bathylagus elongatus Roule, 1916
Sources  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: Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002.  [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, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English goiter blacksmelt  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Davis Strait [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Paeonocanthus antarcticensis (Hewitt, 1965) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on crustaceans and plankton  [details]

Distribution: Western Atlantic: West of Greenland to Georges Bank. Eastern Atlantic: Iceland, Faeroes and Shetlands to Portugal [details]

Habitat: Found at depths of 700- 1800m in temperate and sub arctic waters.  [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Predators: Fishes and marine mammals  [details]

Reproduction: Eggs and larvae are pelagic  [details]
Images 
Bathylagus euryops (deepsea smelt)
Bathylagus euryops (deepsea smelt)
added on 2011-03-28 - author: Themelis, Daphne ()
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Bathylagus euryops
Bathylagus euryops
added on 2013-02-18 - author: Alexei Orlov ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126719
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Bathylagus euryops Goode & Bean, 1896. 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=126719 on 2013-05-22
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