Animalia > Chordata > Stomiiformes > Sternoptychidae > Argyropelecus > Argyropelecus affinis

Argyropelecus affinis (Pacific hatchetfish; Slender hatchetfish; Pacific hatchet fish; Deepsea hatchetfish)

Synonyms: Argyropelachus affinis; Argyropelecus pacificus
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Wikipedia Abstract

Argyropelecus affinis is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Sternoptychidae, found in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Common names for this fish include Pacific hatchetfish, deepsea hatchetfish and slender hatchetfish. It inhabits the mesopelagic zone and is either non-migratory or performs short daily vertical migrations.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Prey / Diet

Predators

Thysanoteuthis rhombus (diamond squid)[4]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3Vertical distribution and feeding patterns of midwater fish in the central equatorial Atlantic II. Sternoptychidae, J. Kinzer and K. Schulz, Marine Biology 99, 261-269 (1988)
♦ 4CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
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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