Bathygadus Antrodes
📖 Overview
Bathygadus Antrodes (Bathygadus antrodes), first described by Jordan & Starks, 1904 is a large fish in the family Macrouridae (order Gadiformes). Adults typically reach 63.50 cm in maximum length. It inhabits marine coastal and open-ocean environments. Recorded depth range: 792 to 1200 metres. It occurs in Deep-water waters. It is broadly omnivorous, taking invertebrates, plant matter, and detritus.
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Head very wide and rather elongate. Bones of head soft and cavernous. Orbit small. Mouth terminal and oblique. Teeth minute, roughly equal, with arrow-shaped tip, set in broad band on premaxillary and in narrow band on dentary. No teeth on vomer or palatine. No barbel. Scales cycloid, small, and deciduous. Scales on mandibular ramus comparatively large, arranged in a single row .: elongated.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Bathygadus Antrodes is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
🥚 Reproduction
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 792 - 1200 m . Deep-water Northwest Pacific: central and southern Japan and Nintoku Seamount.
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🔍 Similar Species
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