Goiter blacksmelt
| Goiter blacksmelt | |
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| Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Argentiniformes |
| Family: | Bathylagidae |
| Genus: | Bathylagus |
| Species: | B. euryops |
| Binomial name | |
| Bathylagus euryops Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 | |
The goiter blacksmelt (Bathylagus euryops) is a species of deep-sea smelt found in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is the biomass-dominant pelagic fish over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge when the entire water column is fully considered. The water-column in which it resides is 500 to 3,237 m (1,640 to 10,620 ft) deep. No topographic trapping can be performed on the species as they do not vertically migrate. This species grows to a length of 13 cm (5.1 in)]].
Because one would expect the abundancy of Bathylagus species to decrease with increasing depth, just as many individuals are at depths over 2000 m as are close to the surface.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Bathylagus euryops" in FishBase. February 2012 version.
- at ITIS.gov
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