Snubnose eelpout
Snubnose eelpout | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Zoarcidae |
Genus: | Pachycara |
Species: | P. bulbiceps
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Binomial name | |
Pachycara bulbiceps (Garman, 1899)
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The snubnose eelpout (Pachycara bulbiceps) is a species of fish in the family Zoarcidae (eelpouts).[3][4]
Description[]
The snubnose eelpout is dark brown in colour and up to 51.5 cm (1.69 ft) in length, with 112–119 vertebrae.[5] It has a bulb-shaped head, as indicated by the specific name bulbiceps.[6] It has no pelvic fins.[7]
Habitat[]
The snubnose eelpout lives in the North Atlantic Ocean and off the east coast of the North Pacific Ocean.[8][9] It is bathydemersal and abyssobenthic, living at depths of 2,400–4,780 m (7,870–15,680 ft).[10][11]
References[]
- ^ Academy), Tomio Iwamoto (Cal (May 20, 2013). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Pachycara bulbiceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
- ^ "Site Maintenance". www.marinespecies.org.
- ^ "California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports". Marine Research Committee. July 12, 2010 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Proceedings: Biological sciences". Royal Society of London. July 12, 1998 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Marine Species Identification Portal : Pachycara bulbiceps". species-identification.org.
- ^ "Resource Inventory of Marine and Estuarine Fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: A Checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean Species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border". U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, National Biological Information Infrastructure. July 12, 2005 – via Google Books.
- ^ Welsh, Hartwel H. (July 12, 1988). "An Ecogeographic Analysis of the Herpetofauna of the Sierra San Pedro Martir Region, Baja California: With a Contribution to the Biogeography of the Baja California Herpetofauna". California Academy of Sciences – via Google Books.
- ^ Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United (November 15, 2018). The living marine resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 4: Bony fishes part 2 (Perciformes). Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN 9789251092675 – via Google Books.
- ^ https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Pachycara+bulbiceps
- ^ "Pachycara bulbiceps | NBN Atlas". species.nbnatlas.org.
- ^ "Pachycara bulbiceps, Snubnose eelpout". www.fishbase.de.
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Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Ray-finned fish stubs
- Zoarcidae
- Fish described in 1899
- Taxa named by Samuel Garman