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🌊 Marine Data Deficient 🌡️ Tropical

Eustomias Flagellifer

Eustomias flagellifer Clarke, 2001
Max Length
9 cm
Max Weight
-
Lifespan
-
Trophic Level
4
Depth
0–200 m
Climate
Tropical
Resilience
High
Vulnerability
17.00/100
Typical Length
-
Depth Zone
pelagic

📖 Overview

Overview information for Eustomias Flagellifer is currently being compiled by our editorial team.

Scientific Name
Eustomias flagellifer
Authority
Clarke, 2001
Habitat
Marine
Climate
Tropical
Body Shape
Elongated
IUCN Status
DD
Max Length
9 cm
Depth Range
0–200 m
Trophic Level
4
Resilience
High
Vulnerability
17.00/100
Salinity
30–40 ppt

🔬 Taxonomy

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Teleostei
Order
Stomiiformes
Stomiiformes
Family
Stomiidae
Stomiidae
Genus
Eustomias
Eustomias
Species
Eustomias Flagellifer
Eustomias flagellifer

🐟 Physical Description

Barbel with three simple whiplike branches arising together from stem and extending beyond tip of terminal bulb; external pigment on stem extending onto dorsal side of terminal bulb; distal margin of pigment smooth; terminal bulb length more than two times its thickness; bulb bearing a simple terminal filament .: elongated.

🌀 Behaviour

Behavioural data for Eustomias Flagellifer is currently being reviewed.

🦐 Diet

Diet information for Eustomias Flagellifer is currently being compiled.

🥚 Reproduction

Reproduction data for Eustomias Flagellifer is currently being compiled.

🌍 Habitat & Distribution

Marine; pelagic-oceanic; depth range 0 - 200 m . Tropical Central Pacific: known only from the Molucca Sea.

🌿 Ecology

Zone Preferences
🌊 Marine 🐟 Pelagic
Trophic Level
4±0.7

📐 Morphometrics

Length–Weight Relationship: W = 0.00309 × L3.12 (TL)
Max TL
9cm

🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance

Salinity Range
30–40ppt

🛡️ Conservation Assessment

IUCN Category
Data Deficient
Assessment Date
2019

📊 Population Risk & Fisheries

Population Resilience
High
Minimum doubling time
Fishing Vulnerability
17.00/100
Low vulnerability
Trophic Level
4
Apex / Top predator
Body Shape
Elongated
Climate Zone
Tropical
Described By
Clarke, 2001

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