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Melanolagus bericoides
Sign in to saveMelanolagus bericoides (the bigscale deep-sea smelt) is a species of deep-sea smelt, found in oceans such as the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific. It is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical oceans to a depth of , and the species grows to a length of . Its original name is Scopelus bericoides Borodin 1929 and it belongs to the family Melanolagus Kobyliansky, 1986.
Species
Bigscale deepsea smelt
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderOsmeriformes
- FamilyBathylagidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 155
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Bathylagidae
- Collections
- UWFC, YPM, SIO, NMV, CICIMAR-IPN, KU
- Recorded in
- United States, Portugal, Bahamas, Australia, Jamaica, Mexico, New Caledonia, Kiribati
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
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- taxon name
- Melanolagus bericoides
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon common name
- 兔鮭
- taxon range
- Brazil
- short name
- M. bericoides
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Encyclopedic overview
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Melanolagus bericoides (the bigscale deep-sea smelt) is a species of deep-sea smelt, found in oceans such as the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific. It is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical oceans to a depth of , and the species grows to a length of . Its original name is Scopelus bericoides Borodin 1929 and it belongs to the family Melanolagus Kobyliansky, 1986.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melanolagus bericoides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.