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Ariosoma balearicum (Delaroche, 1809)

Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Anguilliformes

Family: Congridae

Genus: Ariosoma

Species: Ariosoma balearicum (Delaroche, 1809)

Climate Zone

  • Subtropical

    • Location

  • Eastern Atlantic: southern Portugal to Angola, including the Mediterranean. Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern South America (Ref. 7251). Nortwest Atlantic: Canada.

    • Biology

    Found on the shelf, littoral, burrowing in galleries on sandy mud bottoms. Carnivorous. (Ref. 6521).

    Habitat

    associated