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Argentina elongata (Angelfish; Argentine; Silverside)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Argentina elongata is a herring smelt found around southern Australia, and New Zealand, at depths of between 69 and 600 m (226 and 1,969 ft). Its length is up to 25.0 centimetres (9.8 in). It is a species of minor importance to local commercial fisheries.
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  16 years

Prey / Diet

Chloeia inermis[2]
Salpa thompsoni[2]
Soestia zonaria[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Coelorinchus aspercephalus (Rough-head whiptail)1
Gymnoscopelus opisthopterus (Lanternfish)1
Lepidonotothen squamifrons (Grey rockcod)1
Notothenia microlepidota (Black cod)2
Nototheniops larseni (Painted notie)1

Predators

Arctocephalus forsteri (Australasian Fur Seal)[3]
Megadyptes antipodes (Yellow-eyed Penguin)[4]
Moroteuthopsis ingens (warty squid)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hepatoxylon trichiuri[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, 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.
♦ 2Malcolm R. Clark (1985): The food and feeding of seven fish species from the Campbell Plateau, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 19:3, 339-363
♦ 3FISH PREY SPECIES OF THE NEW ZEALAND FUR SEAL (ARCTOCEPHALUS FORSTERI, LESSON), Peter W. Carey, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1992) 16(1): 41-46
♦ 4DIET OF THE YELLOW-EYED PENGUIN MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES, SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 1991–1993, P.J. MOORE & M.D. WAKELIN, Marine Ornithology 25: 17–29 (1997)
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Gibson, 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