Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Callionymidae > Paracallionymus > Paracallionymus costatus

Paracallionymus costatus (Ladder dragonet; Cape dragonet)

Synonyms: Callionymus costatus; Paracallionymus fowleri
Language: Afrikaans; French; Mandarin Chinese; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Paracallionymus costatus, the Ladder dragonet, is a species of dragonet found along the southern coast of Africa from Namibia to Mozambique where it occurs at depths of from 55 to 400 metres (180 to 1,312 ft). This species grows to a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL. This species is the only known member of its genus.
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Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Diplectanotrema balistes[1]
Hapladena varia[1]
Hysterolecitha rosea[1]

External References

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.
♦ 2R. Villanueva , Diet and mandibular growth of Octopus magnificus (Cephalopoda), South African Journal of Marine Science, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1993, pages 121-126
♦ 3Feeding pattern of the kingklip (Genypterus capensis)and its effect on the hake (Merluccius capensis) resource off the coast of Namibia, E. Macpherson, Marine Biology 78, 105-112 (1983)
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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