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Chiasmodontidae

Description

Family Chiasmodontidae

Chiasmodon niger Johnson, 1864 —Black swallower

Two specimens, one of them measuring 15 cm TL, were caught at depths between 786 and 857 m. Habitat and Distribution: meso- to bathypelagic species between 150 and 3,900 m, specimens larger than 45 mm usually between 730–1,900 m. Distributed throughout the tropical and temperate eastern and western North Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, from 95ºW to 5ºE and 46ºN to 5ºS. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), LV (FishBase).

Other

Published as part of Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), pp. 293-333 in Zootaxa 4067 (3) on page 323, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256670

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Biodiversity

Family
Chiasmodontidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
family