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WoRMS taxon details

Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833

126333  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126333)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lowe, R.T. (1833). Description of <i>Alepisaurus</i>, a new genus of fishes. <em>Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.</em> (pt 1): 104.
page(s): 104 [details] 
Distribution Greenland southward to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico; Georges and LaHave Banks  
Distribution Greenland southward to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico; Georges and LaHave Banks [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126333 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 Lowe, R.T. (1833). Description of <i>Alepisaurus</i>, a new genus of fishes. <em>Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.</em> (pt 1): 104.
page(s): 104 [details] 

original description (of Alepisaurus richardsonii Bleeker, 1855) Bleeker, P. (1855). Over eenige visschen van Van Diemensland. <em>Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Amsterdam).</em> v. 2 (art. 7): 1-30 + 31, 1 pl. [details] 

original description (of Alepidosaurus aesculapius Bean, 1883) Jordan, D. S. ; Gilbert, C. H. (1883). Synopsis of the fishes of North America. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 16: i-liv + 1-1018. [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) Hilburn, D. J. et al. (1990). Hymenoptera of Bermuda. Florida Entomologist, 73(1): 161-176 [details] 

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [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 Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details] 

additional source Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; and L. Van Guelpen. (2003). An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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] 

additional source Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. <i>J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A)</i>: 1-37 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 104 [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 
   

Unreviewed
Diet Fishes, cephalopods, tunicates and crustaceans  [details]

Distribution Greenland southward to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico; Georges and LaHave Banks [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat Epi- and mesopelagic, from near the surface to below 1,000 m, sometimes approaching inshore waters.  [details]

Predators Opah, sharks, albacore, yellowfin tuna and fur seals.Cannibalistic.  [details]

Reproduction External fertilization; oviparous; planktonic larvae  [details]
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LanguageName 
English longnose lancetfishLong snouted lancetfishlancetfish  [details]
French cavalo féroce  [details]
Japanese ミズウオ  [details]
Russian Алепизавр лютый (длиннорылый, большеголовый)  [details]
Spanish lanzón picudo  [details]
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