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Argyropelecus hemigymnus Cocco, 1829 
AphiaID: 127309

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Stomiiformes (Order) > Sternoptychidae (Family) > Sternoptychinae (Subfamily) > Argyropelecus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Argyropelecus Cocco, 1829
Synonymised
taxa
  Argyripnus hemigymnus (Cocco, 1829)
Argyropelachus hemigymnus Cocco, 1829 (misspelling)
Argyropelecus durvillei Valenciennes, 1849
Argyropelecus d'Urvillei Valenciennes, 1849 (misspelling)
Argyropelecus heathi Gilbert, 1905
Argyropelecus hemigymmus Cocco, 1829 (misspelling)
Argyropelecus hemigymnos Cocco, 1829 (misspelling)
Argyropelecus intermedius Clarke, 1878
Sources  basis of record: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

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: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [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, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [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 hatchet-fish  [details]
English short silver hatchetfish  [details]
Hebrew קופיצן הכסף  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Πελεκόψαρο  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål flekket perlemorfisk  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk flekka perlemorfisk  [details]
Turkish isildak baligi  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)
To Barcode of Life (28 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (142 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on copepods and small fishes  [details]

Distribution: Grand Bank, into the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea [details]

Habitat: Occasionally found in Canadian Atlantic waters. Found at depths of 250- 650 m.  [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Habitat: Mesopelagic [details]

Habitat: Epipelagic [details]

Predators: Whiting [details]

Reproduction: Spawns more than once per season, oviparous with planktonic eggs  [details]
Image 
Argyropelecus hemigymnus Cocco, 1829
Argyropelecus hemigymnus Cocco, 1829
added on 2006-08-21 - author: RIVO/Henk Heessen/2005
qualitystatus: not checked

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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127309
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). Argyropelecus hemigymnus Cocco, 1829. 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=127309 on 2013-05-25
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