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Bathylagidae

Description

Family Bathylagidae

Bathylagus euryops Goode & Bean, 1896 —Goiter blacksmelt (Fig. 8)

2 specimens of 19 and 20 cm TL were caught at depths between 1,685 and 1,750 m. Habitat and Distribution: meso-and bathypelagic zones of the North Atlantic, sometimes in large aggregations, between 300 and 2,300 m depth. Western Atlantic, as far north as Greenland, extending south to Bermuda and eastern Atlantic, from Iceland to Portugal. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), LMV (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 pages 305-306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256670

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Biodiversity

Family
Bathylagidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Osmeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
family