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Argyropelecus sladeni Regan, 1908 
AphiaID: 158837

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 sladeni (Regan, 1908)
Argyropelecus hawaiensis Schultz, 1960
Sources  basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

basis of record: Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002.  [details]

basis of record: 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: 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 lowcrest hachetfish  [details]
French hache d'argent mince  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution British Columbia [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on copepods  [details]

Distribution: tropical Atlantic waters to as far north as Sable Island Bank [details]

Habitat: Found to depths of 2926 m. [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158837
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 07:39:43Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Argyropelecus sladeni Regan, 1908. 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=158837 on 2013-06-20
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