Overview

Comprehensive Description

Biology

Maximum TL of at least 20 cm.
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Distribution

Eastern Pacific: Malpelo Island, Colombia and the Galapagos Islands.
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Physical Description

Size

Maximum size: 200 mm TL
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Max. size

20.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 9315))
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Type Information

Paratype for Asthenomacrurus fragilis
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Fishes
Year Collected: 1891
Locality: Off Panama, Panama, Pacific
Depth (m): 3334 to 3334
Vessel: Albatross
  • Paratype: Garman, S. 1899. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 24: 203.
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Ecology

Habitat

Depth range based on 1 specimen in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 1 sample.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 3334 - 3334
  Temperature range (°C): 2.068 - 2.068
  Nitrate (umol/L): 39.524 - 39.524
  Salinity (PPS): 34.674 - 34.674
  Oxygen (ml/l): 2.655 - 2.655
  Phosphate (umol/l): 2.819 - 2.819
  Silicate (umol/l): 149.796 - 149.796
 
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Depth: 1330 - 3330m.
From 1330 to 3330 meters.

Habitat: bathypelagic.
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Environment

bathypelagic; marine; depth range 1330 - 3336 m (Ref. 58018)
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Conservation

Threats

Not Evaluated
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