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Xenodermichthys copei (Gill, 1884)

126714  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126714)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Aleposomus copei Gill, 1884) Gill, T. N. (1884). Three new families of fishes added to the deep-sea fauna in a year. <em>American Naturalist.</em> v. 18 (no. 4): 433. [details] 
Description Usually found near continental slopes. Feeds primarily on crustaceans (euphausids, copepods, amphipods and decapod zoea),...  
Description Usually found near continental slopes. Feeds primarily on crustaceans (euphausids, copepods, amphipods and decapod zoea), also ostracods and small cephalopods. Spawning from September to November on or near the bottom (Ref. 4736). [details]

Distribution Atlantic Ocean: widely distributed, ranging north to Iceland in the eastern section   
Distribution Atlantic Ocean: widely distributed, ranging north to Iceland in the eastern section  [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Xenodermichthys copei (Gill, 1884). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126714 on 2024-11-21
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description (of Xenodermichthys socialis Vaillant, 1888) Vaillant, L. L. (1888). Expéditions scientifiques du "Travailleur" et du "Talisman" pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883. <em>Poissons. Paris.</em> 1-406, Pls. 1-28. [details] 

original description (of Aleposomus copei Gill, 1884) Gill, T. N. (1884). Three new families of fishes added to the deep-sea fauna in a year. <em>American Naturalist.</em> v. 18 (no. 4): 433. [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

context source (Bermuda) Beebe, W. (1937). Preliminary list of Bermuda deep-sea fish. Zoologica (New York), 22 (3): 197-208 [details] 

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details] 

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] 

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2024). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Description Usually found near continental slopes. Feeds primarily on crustaceans (euphausids, copepods, amphipods and decapod zoea), also ostracods and small cephalopods. Spawning from September to November on or near the bottom (Ref. 4736). [details]

Diet Feeds primarily on crustaceans (euphausids, copepods, amphipods and decapod zoea), also ostracods and small cephalopods  [details]

Distribution Atlantic Ocean: widely distributed, ranging north to Iceland in the eastern section  [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat Epipelagic [details]

Habitat Usually found near continental slopes.  [details]
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English bluntsnout smooth-headbluntsnout smoothheadAtlantic gymnast  [details]
French gymnaste atlantique  [details]
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