Electrona risso
| Electrona risso | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Myctophiformes |
| Family: | Myctophidae |
| Genus: | Electrona |
| Species: | E. risso |
| Binomial name | |
| Electrona risso (Cocco, 1829) | |
The chubby flashlight fish (Electrona risso) is a species of lanternfish in the family Myctophidae. This mesopelagic marine fish is found at depths of 90-820 m. The males can reach 8.2 cm in length and have 32-34 vertebrae. This species is sexually mature from 5.9 cm long. It is oviparous with planktonic larvae and eggs. It spawns in the Mediterranean mainly between summer and autumn. It is prey for many piscivores, including the splendid alfonsino in the Azores, and Fraser's dolphin and the spinner dolphin in the Philippines. E. risso preys on copepods.[1]
It occurs in the east Atlantic from the British Isles to Namibia, in the Mediterranean, in the west Atlantic from Suriname to Brazil, off eastern Canada, the Indian Ocean, Australia, and the eastern South China Sea.
References
- ↑ Podrazhanskaya, S. G. (1993). "Feeding habits of mesopelagic species of fish and estimation of plankton graze in the northwest Atlantic". NAFO Scientific Council Studies 19: 79–85.
- Goode GB & Bean TH (1896) "Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures". Spec. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. Num..Text: XXXV-and 1-26 + 1-553.
- Cocco, A., (1829) "Su di alcuni nuovi pesci de' mari di Messina". Giornale di Scienze Lettere e Arti in La Sicilia Anno 7, v. 26 (núm. 77): 138-147.
- Hulley, PA, (1990) "Myctophidae" pp. 398-467 in A JC Quero, JC Hureau, C. In JC Quero, JC Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Karrer, A. Post i L. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA).