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Sternoptychidae (Marine hatchetfishes) > Sternoptychinae
Etymology: Argyropelecus: Greek, argyros = silvered, silver + Greek, pelekys = axe (Ref. 45335).
البيئة: الوسط / المنطقة المناخية / نطاق العمق / نطاق التوزيع
البيئة
بحري مياه عميقة; نطاق العمق 0 - 2400 m (Ref. 74511), usually 100 - 700 m (Ref. 28981). Deep-water; 60°N - 56°S
Eastern Atlantic: north of British Isles to South Africa, including western Mediterranean. Western Atlantic: New Jersey, USA to Argentina (Ref. 26340). Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951). Eastern Pacific: throughout the California Current area, seaward of the continental shelf (Ref. 35838). Known from tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans (Ref. 47377). South China Sea (Ref.74511).
الطول عند النضج الأول / الحجم / وزن / العمر
النضج: Lm ?, range 3 - ? cm
Max length : 5.1 cm TL ذكر/ مختلط الجنس; (Ref. 96016); أعلا وزن تم نشرة: 1.42 g (Ref. 128245); العمر: 1.00 سنين (Ref. 5168)
الأشواك الظهرية (المجموع) : 0; الأشعة الظهرية الناعمة (المجموع) : 8 - 9; شوكة شرجية: 0; أشعه شرجية لينه: 11 - 12; فقرات: 36 - 39. Body bright silvery in color; body and trunk with dusky coloration at night (Ref. 4054). Branchiostegal rays: 10 (Ref. 35838).
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep.
Oceanic (Ref. 4739) and mesopelagic, mainly at 250-650 m (Ref. 4054). Depth range from 100-700 m (Ref. 4462) and from 460-1082 m in the eastern Ionian Sea (Ref. 56504). Adults make marked vertical migrations (Ref. 4739). Found singly or in small groups (Ref. 4739). An opportunistic feeder at dusk on calanoid copepods, small fishes, etc (Ref. 4739). Sexual dimorphism with regard to body size (Ref. 5168), the males being slightly smaller than the females (Ref. 8966). Oviparous, with planktonic eggs and larvae (Ref. 35838).
Occurs between 200 and 700 m depth during the day, concentrated between 350 and 550 m, and between 100 and 650 m at night, preferring a depth between 150 and 380 m Ref. 47377). Also Ref. 58302.
Spawns more than once per season with egg batches about 50-500 egg/ovary pair, the number increasing with increased animal size (Ref. 4739).
Gon, O., 1990. Sternoptychidae. p. 123-126. In O. Gon and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Fishes of the Southern Ocean. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa. (Ref. 5168)
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درجة الحرارة المفضلة (مرجع
123201): 5.5 - 21.3, mean 11.3 °C (based on 2694 cells).
مؤشر التنوع الشُعبي الوراثي (مرجع
82804): PD
50 = 0.5078 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01778 (0.01025 - 0.03084), b=3.08 (2.93 - 3.23), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref.
93245).
مستوى غذائي (مرجع
69278): 3.1 ±0.14 se; based on food items.
المرونه (مرجع
120179): عالي, الحد الزمني الأدني لتضاعف عدد أفراد المجتمع أقل من 15 شهر (tm=1; tmax=1).
ضعف الصيد (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
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المغذيات (Ref.
124155): Calcium = 53 [14, 266] mg/100g; Iron = 0.636 [0.179, 2.130] mg/100g; Protein = 2.42 [0.00, 6.40] %; Omega3 = 0.273 [0.071, 1.024] g/100g; Selenium = 9.22 [2.53, 44.10] μg/100g; VitaminA = 33.7 [3.6, 314.7] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.916 [0.368, 2.357] mg/100g (wet weight);
