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Sternoptyx diaphana (Diaphanous hatchet fish; Diaphanous Hatchetfish; Dollar hatchetfish; Dusky hatchetfish; Hatchetfish; Oblique hatchetfish; Transparent hatchetfish)

Synonyms: Sternopteryx diaphana; Sternoptyx diaphna
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Wikipedia Abstract

Sternoptyx diaphana, the diaphanous hatchetfish, is a species of deep sea ray-finned fish in the family Sternoptychidae. It is the type species of the genus Sternoptyx, and was first described by the French naturalist Johann Hermann in 1781.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Prey / Diet

Predators

Alepisaurus ferox (Wolffish)[2]
Thunnus albacares (Yellowfin-tuna)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ceratobothrium xanthocephalum[4]
Heteronybelinia robusta[4]
Nybelinia robusta <Unverified Name>[4]
Tentacularia coryphaenae[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)
4Gibson, 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