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Antimora microlepis Bean, 1890

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 54 - 60; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 39 - 42. Head short; snout pointed; chin barbel short. Color variable from pale but definite blue gray or olive green throughout to deep violet or blue black; darker on outer edges of fins and very dark on edge of caudal and fins on ventral part of body; dark on lower part of gill cover and branchiostegals (Ref. 6885).

Common Names

  • Småskællet antimora , Danish , Denmark
  • Finescale antimora , English , UK
  • Finescale antimora , English , Hawaii
  • Finescale mora , English , Global
  • Longfin cod , English , Canada
  • Pacific flatnose , English , Canada
  • Pacific flatnose , English , USA
  • Peensoomus-antimora , Estonian , Estonia
  • Antimore violet , French , France
  • Kanada-dara , Japanese , Japan
  • 細鱗擬深海鱈 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 细鳞拟深海鳕 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • Mora viola , Spanish , Mexico
  • Mora viola , Spanish , Mexico
  • Mora viola , Spanish , Spain

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Gadiformes

    Family: Moridae

    Genus: Antimora

    Species: Antimora microlepis Bean, 1890

    Climate Zone

  • bathypelagic

    • Location

  • North Pacific: Shikoku Island, Japan to Navarin Canyon in the Bering Sea, the Gulf of California and Johnston Island.

    • Biology

    Inhabits the lower regions of the continental slope between 800 m and 1, 800 m. It appears that sex segregation is also basic to this species, but whether or not the species migrates extensively or uses the North American west coast slopes only as feeding areas is not known (Ref. 1371). Benthopelagic (Ref. 58302). Feeds on benthic invertebrates (Ref. 9319). Taken frequently by deep slope water trawlers fishing for Microstomus pacificus and deepwater Sebastes species (Ref. 1371).

    Habitat

    bathypelagic