Bathylagidae

Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), Zootaxa 4067 (3), pp. 293-333 : 305-306

Family Bathylagidae

Bathylagus euryops Goode & Bean, 1896 —Goiter blacksmelt ( Fig. 8 )

2 specimens of 19 and 20 cm TL were caught at depths between 1,685 and 1,750 m. Habitat and Distribution: meso-and bathypelagic zones of the North Atlantic, sometimes in large aggregations, between 300 and 2,300 m depth. Western Atlantic, as far north as Greenland, extending south to Bermuda and eastern Atlantic, from Iceland to Portugal. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), LMV (FishBase).

Figures

FIGURE 8. Bathylagus euryops.