Animalia > Chordata > Stomiiformes > Sternoptychidae > Argyropelecus > Argyropelecus sladeni

Argyropelecus sladeni (Hatchet fish; Hawaiian hatchet fish; Lowcrest hatchetfish; Lowerest hatchetfish; Silvery hatchetfish; Sladen's hatchet fish; Sladen's hatchtefish)

Synonyms: Argyripnus sladeni; Argyropelecus hawaiensis; Argyropelecus lynchus hawaiensis
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Wikipedia Abstract

Sladen's hatchetfish (Argyropelecus sladeni) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Sternoptychidae, found in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. This small fish lives in the mesopelagic zone by day and makes a daily vertical migration to the epipelagic zone at night.
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Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Oblada melanura (Saddled seabream)1
Vinciguerria nimbaria (World-wide bristle-mouth fish)1

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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.
♦ 2Vertical 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)
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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