Pencil cardinal
📖 Overview
Adults benthic on the continental slope and collected with bottom trawls . Juveniles are pelagic in depths of 130-145 and 350-425 m . Feed on small fishes and planktonic invertebrates . Oviparous .
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 8 - 9. Lacks opercular spines . Membranous edge at upper border of the gill cover is well developed. Caudal peduncle elongated, body not deep . Pyloric caeca 10-14. Preserved specimens are brownish to yellowish in color, dorsally darker. Numerous brown-black melanophores on scale pockets.: fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Pencil cardinal is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
🥚 Reproduction
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 130 - 830 m , usually 300 - 600 m . Deep-water; 43°N - 44°S, 98°W - 142°E west coast of Africa to the southern tip of the continent, also western Mediterranean to southern Adriatic Sea.
🌿 Ecology
small fishes and planktonic invertebrates (Ref
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Bigeye · Gobbleguts · Pencil cardinal · White Deepsea Cardinalfish · White cardinal fish · White cardinalfish |
| 🌍CES | parmovka zoubkatá |
| 🌍ELL | Λευκός καρδινάλιος |
| 🇫🇮Finnish | hammassyvänneahven |
| 🇫🇷French | Sonneur nain |
| 🇮🇹Italian | Re di Triglie bruno · Ré di triglie |
| 🇯🇵Japanese | Hage-yasemutsu · Hageyasemutsu · ハゲヤセムツ |
| 🇷🇺Russian | Зубатый эпигонус |
| 🇨🇳Chinese | 大目側仔 · 大面側仔 · 細身後竺鯛 · 細身深海天竺鯛 |
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 23 records indexed .
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