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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:50B7E074-F212-4193-BFB9-84A1D0A0E03C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5618880
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC642D14-3A45-FFC6-34F2-F835DE462A62
treatment provided by	Plazi (2016-04-03 14:44:58, last updated 2024-11-26 00:47:01)
scientific name	Bathylagidae
status

Treatment

Family Bathylagidae View in CoL View at ENA

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

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Osmeriformes
Family	Bathylagidae
Genus	Bathylagus

Specimens