Lovely hatchetfish
📖 Overview
An oceanic and mesopelagic species concentrated at 300-600 m by day and 100-300 by night. A selective dusk-time feeder mainly on conchoecid ostracods, to lesser extent on copepods, decapod larvae, fish larvae, etc . Adult photophore developing at about 15 mm SL . Also Ref. 58302.
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 12. Deep body, lower opercular spine straight downward and curved outward. Upper opercular spine short, pointing outward .: short and / or deep.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Lovely hatchetfish is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
🥚 Reproduction
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; bathypelagic; depth range 100 - 2056 m . Deep-water; 40°N - 35°S, 180°W - 180°E Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref.
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Atlantic Silver Hatchetfish · Hatchet fish · Hatchetfish · longspine silver hatchetfish · lovely hatchet fish · Lovely Hatchet-fish · Lovely hatchetfish · marine hatchetfish · Silver hatchetfish |
| 🌍CES | stříbrnáč lesklý |
| 🇩🇰Danish | Spids sølvøkse |
| 🇫🇮Finnish | Atlantinhelmiäiskala · etelänlättäkala |
| 🇫🇷French | Hache d'argent a epines · hache d'argent à grandes épines · Tiefsee-Beilbauchfish |
| 🇯🇵Japanese | Togarimuneeso · トガリムネエソ |
| 🌍NNO | pigghala perlemorfisk |
| 🌍NOB | pigghalet perlemorfisk |
| 🇳🇴Norwegian | Pigghalet perlemorfisk |
| 🇷🇺Russian | колючий топорик · Рыба-топор |
| 🇪🇸Spanish | Pez Hacha · pez hacha plateado |
| 🇸🇪Swedish | Taggig pärlemorfisk |
| 🇨🇳Chinese | 斧魚 · 棘銀斧魚 · 海洋斧魚 · 銀斧 |
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 222 records indexed .
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