Animalia > Chordata > Stomiiformes > Stomiidae > Chauliodus > Chauliodus macouni

Chauliodus macouni (Fanged viperfish; Pacific viperfish; Viperfish)

Synonyms: Chauliodus emmelas
Language: Finnish; Japanese; Mandarin Chinese; Russian; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

{{Taxobox| name = Pacific viperfish| image = Head of a pacific Viperfish 4037.jpg| regnum = Animalia| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]°°°]| classis = Actinopterygii| ordo = Stomiiformes| familia = Stomiidae| genus = Chauliodus| species = C. macouni| binomial = Chauliodus macouni| binomial_authority = T. H. Bean, 1890}} Pacific viperfish can be characterized by its large mouth, long fang-like teeth and long dorsal fin ray (as much as half its body length). They are iridescent dark silver-blue color in life with pale fins. They can also be a light black color with blue fins.
View Wikipedia Record: Chauliodus macouni

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13 grams
Maximum Longevity [2]  8 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Aleutian Islands Biosphere Reserve 2720489 Alaska, United States    
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve II 366714 British Columbia, Canada
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada

Prey / Diet

Bathylagus pacificus (Pacific black smelt)[3]
Leuroglossus schmidti (northern smoothtongue)[3]
Stenobrachius leucopsarus (Smallfin lanternfish)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Yang, M-S. 2011. Diet of nineteen mesopelagic fishes in the Gulf of Alaska. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-AFSC-229, 67 p.
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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