Animalia > Chordata > Stephanoberyciformes > Melamphaidae > Melamphaes > Melamphaes lugubris

Melamphaes lugubris (Highsnout bigscale; Highsnout melamphid)

Synonyms: Melamphaes cavernosus; Plectromus lugubris
Language: Japanese; Mandarin Chinese

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada

Prey / Diet

Calanus marshallae[1]
Eucalanus bungii[1]
Hymenodora frontalis (Pacific ambereye)[1]
Neocalanus cristatus[1]
Paraeuchaeta elongata[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Atheresthes stomias (Turbot)[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Yang, 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.
♦ 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.
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