Long-finned escolar

📖 Overview

Probably schooling, migrates to midwater at night. Feeds on fishes (myctophids, Maurolicus, eels, macrourids, carangids, emmelichthyids, etc.), prawn and squid; large prey items are swallowed in parts . Matures at about 25 cm standard length. No special fishery but appears as a bycatch of deep-water prawn trawl fishery in New South Wales, Australia.

🔬 Taxonomy

🐟 Physical Description

Dorsal spines (total): 19 - 20; Dorsal soft rays (total): 15 - 17; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 12 - 14; Vertebrae: 34. Most of the body is naked except for the wedge-shaped stripe of squamation extending forward from the caudal peduncle along the horizontal part of the lower lateral line and a few scales along the posterior part of the upper lateral line. Pyloric caeca 8 to 10. Pelvic fins entirely absent at over 25 cm SL. Body color is grayish or brownish with metallic tint; fins blackish or gray.: elongated; Cross section: compressed.

🌀 Behaviour

Behavioural data for Long-finned escolar is currently being reviewed.

🦐 Diet

Diet information for Long-finned escolar is currently being compiled.

🥚 Reproduction

Reproduction data for Long-finned escolar is currently being compiled.

🌍 Habitat & Distribution

Marine; benthopelagic; depth range 230 - 920 m . Deep-water; 13°S - 40°S, 143°E - 83°W Southeast Pacific: seamounts of Nazca and Sala y Gomez Ridges and at Easter Island.

🌿 Ecology

📐 Morphometrics

🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance

📊 Population Risk & Fisheries

🐠 Related Species

🔍 Similar Species

🗺️ Global Occurrence Map

Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) — 40 records indexed .

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