Animalia > Chordata > Stephanoberyciformes > Melamphaidae > Poromitra > Poromitra crassiceps

Poromitra crassiceps (Ridgehead; One-horned melamphaid fish; Large-headed midnight fish; Crested melamphid; Crested bigscale)

Synonyms: Melamphaes crassiceps (homotypic); Scopelus crassiceps (homotypic)
Language: Icelandic; Japanese; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Poromitra crassiceps, commonly called the crested bigscale (also called large-headed midnight fish, crested melamphid, or one-horned melamphaid) is a species of deep sea fish in the ridgehead family. While the fish with the common name crested bigscale in Alaskan waters had formerly been identified as P. crassiceps, it is now believed that Alaskan crested bigscales are actually Poromitra curilensis, and that P. crassiceps is restricted to the Atlantic ocean. As a result of this mis-identification, P. crassiceps is occasionally identified as the largest ridgehead - while specimens of P. curilensis as large as 18 cm SL have been found, the maximum length of P. crassiceps is 14.8 cm SL.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada

Predators

Halobaena caerulea (Blue Petrel)[1]
Moroteuthopsis ingens (warty squid)[1]
Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin)[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
2DIET OF THE STRIPED DOLPHIN, Stenella coeruleoalba, IN THE EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN, William F. Perrin, Kelly M. Robertson, and William A. Walker, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, March 2008
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0