Description

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 21; Anal soft rays: 33 - 41; Vertebrae: 52. Head naked, covered with soft, tough skin. Cephalic lateralis system with 5 pores each in the supraorbital, preopercular, and mandibular series and 4 in posttemporal series. No trace of supratemporal commissure. Two pores joined by a short, dark canal on lachrymal on each side of snout above the maxillae. Snout elongate with upper jaw shorter than the lower jaw. Head narrow. Body with small, barely or non-imbricate scale pockets. Branchiostegal rays 5 (?). Pyloric caeca 4 (Ref. 40779).

Common Names

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Luminous slickhead , English , Australia

Luminous slickhead , English , Global

Helenduv torukoonkala , Estonian , Estonia

管口平头鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

管口平頭魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Alepocephaliformes

Family: Alepocephalidae

Genus: Aulastomatomorpha

Species: Aulastomatomorpha phospherops Alcock, 1890

Climate Zone

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bathydemersal

Location

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Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and Coral Sea.

Biology

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Found on the continental slope (Ref. 75154).

Habitat

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bathydemersal