Animalia > Chordata > Stomiiformes > Stomiidae > Chauliodus > Chauliodus sloani

Chauliodus sloani (Dannevig's dragonfish; Manylight viperfish; Needletooth; Sloane's viperfish; Sloan's fangfish; Sloan's faugfish; Sloan's viper fish; Sloan's viperfish; Viperfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sloane's viperfish, Chauliodus sloani, is a dragonfish of the genus Chauliodus, found in all tropical and subtropical oceans, at depths down to 2,500 m. Their length is between 20 and 35 cm. As a species, Sloane's viperfish holds the world record for largest teeth relative to head size in a fish. It has teeth so large that it must open its mouth to make the jaws vertical before it can swallow prey. When the mouth is closed, the teeth overlap the jaws. It eats large prey by lowering the internal skeleton of the gills, allowing the prey to pass into the throat without interference. It can impale prey on the teeth by swimming at them with the first vertebra behind the head acting as a shock absorber. Sloan's viperfish is approximately 28 cm (11 in) long. Its head is about 2 cm (0.8 in) and it
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Attributes

Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Water Biome [1]  Pelagic
Diet [1]  Carnivore

Prey / Diet

Diaphus dumerilii (Lanternfish)[2]
Hygophum hanseni (Hansen's lanternfish)[3]
Lampanyctus alatus (Winged lanternfish)[2]
Lampichthys procerus (Lanternfish)[3]

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Scolex pleuronectis[10]
Tentacularia coryphaenae[10]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
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♦ 3Feeding ecology of five fishes from the mid-slope micronekton community off southern Tasmania, Australia, A. Williams, J.A. Koslow, A. Terauds, K. Haskard, Marine Biology (2001) 139: 1177-1192
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Diet and food consumption of a deep-sea fish, orange roughy Hoplostethus atlanticus (Pisces: Trachichthyidae),off southeastern Australia, C . M. Bulman, J. A. Koslow, MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES Vol. 82: 115-129, 1992
♦ 6Niche Partitioning, Distribution And Competition In North Atlantic Beaked Whales, Colin D. MacLeod, A thesis submitted to the School of Biological Sciences for a degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK. January 2005
♦ 7Spanish information about the red seabream (Pagellus bogaraveo) fishery in the Strait of Gibraltar Region, Juan Gil Herrera, CopeMed II, 2010
♦ 8Food and Feeding of Ocean Redfish (Sebastes mentella Travin) in the North Atlantic, Concepción González and Isabel Bruno, NAFO SCR Doc. 97/92 (1997)
♦ 9CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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