original description
Goode, G. B. ; Bean, T. H. (1878). Descriptions of two gadoid fishes Phycis chesteri and Haloporphyrus viola, from the deep-sea fauna of the northwestern Atlantic. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 1 (no. 40): 256-260. [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record
Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
additional source
Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; 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
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]
From other sources
Diet Feeds on crustaceans, particularly euphausiids, shrimps and amphipods. [details]
Distribution Occurs from the mid-Labrador Shelf to the southern edge of the Grand Bank, Flemish Cap, Laurentian Channel in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, along the edges of the Scotian Shelf southward along the edge of the continental slope in United States waters to the Straits of Florida. [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Habitat deepwater species; found at depths of 160- 1290 m [details]
Reproduction spawning occurs from September to April of Virgnia [details]
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From other sources