Author: Maul, 1948

Bathylagus longirostris Maul, 1948

Diagnosis: snout equal to or greater than one-half orbit. Anal fin base longer than caudal peduncle. Scale pockets with little or no dark pigment, body usually pale. Size: to about 17.5 cm.

Habitat: mesopelagic. Usually caught in small aggregations, apparently carries on daily vertical migrations. Food: plankton. Reproduction: pelagic eggs and larvae.

Distribution: widely distributed in tropical and subtropical Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Taken in southern part of area.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Clupeiformes
Suborder Salmonoidei
Family Bathylagidae
Genus Bathylagus
Species Bathylagus longirostris

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Synonym of Dolicholagus longirostris (Maul, 1948)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Bathylagus longirostris Maul, 1948

Synonyms:

Bathylagus compsus Cohen, 1958c.
Bathylagus longirostris Maul, 1948a, Bolm Mus. munic. Funchal., 3 (5): 35, fig. 14.
Bathylagus longirostris: Cohen, 1964a: 40, fig. 13.


Common names:

none

Cohen, D. M. 1958c. Bathylychnops exilis, a new genus and species of argentinoid fish from the North Pacific. Stanford ichthyol. Bull., (7): 47-52, fig. 1-5.

Cohen, D. M. 1964a. Suborder Argentinoidea. Mem. Sears Found. Mar. Res., New Haven, 1 (4): 1-70.

Maul, G. E. 1948a. Monografia dos peixes do Museu Municipal do Funchal. Ordem Isospondyli. Bolm. Mus. munic. Funchal, 3 (5): 5-41, 16 fig.

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