Anoplogaster cornuta

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Adults occur mainly between 500 and 2,000 m , but ranging from near the surface (young) to 5,000 m. May be found at depths of 50 to 4900 meters.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -7,118 meters (0 to -23,353 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Diet

Carnivorous [2], feeding on crustaceans when young and on fish mainly when adults [3].

Reproduction

Oviparous , with planktonic larvae[4].

Behavior

Form schools, swim in small groups or solitary.

Predators:

Serve as food for pelagic fishes such as tuna , albacore, and marlin [5].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Anoplogaster cornuta • Anoplogaster cornuta (Valenciennes) • Anoplogaster cornuta (Valenciennes, 1833) • Anoplogaster cornutus • Anoplogaster cornutus (Valenciennes • Anoplogaster cornutus (Valenciennes, 1833) • Caulolepis longidens Gill • Caulolepis subulidens Garman • Hoplostethus cornutus • Hoplostethus cornutus Valenciennes • Hoplostethus cornutus Valenciennes, 1833

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Valenciennes In: Bory: Expéd. sci. Morée, plate 9., 1833.

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 22-Sep-1999

Similar Species

Members of the genus Anoplogaster

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. brachycera (Shorthorn Sabertooth) · A. cornuta (Horned Fang-Tooth Fish) · A. cornutus (Stargazer Mountain Catfish)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A checklist of Canadian Atlantic fishes with keys for identification / Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 1965 url p. 12, p. 65.
• Bats from Guerrero, Jalisco and Oaxaca, Mexico. 37 1955 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1955. url p. 706.
• Breviora. 1964 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 12.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 217.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 184, p. 21, p. 255, p. 264, p. 295, p. 343.
• Discovery reports. London; Cambridge University Press. url p. 56.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 285, p. 781.
• Fishery bulletin. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. url p. 671, p. 678, p. 687.
• Fishes collected by midwater trawls during two cruises of the David Starr Jordan in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, April-June and September-October, 1972 / John L. Butler. .. [et al.]. La Jolla, CA: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, [1997] url p. 31, p. 80.
• Notes on a collection of Bermuda deep-sea fishes. 37 1955 Chicago, Natural History Museum, 1955. url fig. 52 , p. 292, p. 293.
• Ontogeny and systematics of fishes: based on an international symposium dedicated to the memory of Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom / sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Dept. of Commerce. [New York?]: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, c1984. url p. 390.
• Postilla. New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 6, p. 6.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 11.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 10 providers.
• Moore, Jon A. (from FishBase).
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Burke Museum: University of Washington Fish Collection
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Atlantic Reference Centre (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bishop Museum Data (OBIS distribution) (USOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: DFO Maritimes Research Vessel Trawl Surveys Fish Observations (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: iziko South African Museum - Fish Collection
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: MAR-ECO
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Marine and Coastal Management - Demersal Surveys (years 1991-1995)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Marine and Coastal Management - Demersal Surveys (years 1996-2000)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Marine and Coastal Management - Demersal Surveys (years 2006-)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: SeamountsOnline (seamount biota)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South Western Pacific Regional OBIS Data provider for the NIWA Marine Biodata Information System
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: The Deepwater Program: Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Habitat and Benthic Ecology - DgoMB: Fish
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 120007
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-23904
• Fishbase Species ID: 2308
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13827394
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 166152
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 102168

Footnotes

1. Mean = -2,452.690 meters (-8,046.883 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,818.430 based on 393 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Davenport, J. (1993). Ventilation of the gills by the pectoral fins in the fangtooth Anoplogaster cornutum: how to breathe with a full mouth. J. Fish Biol. 42:967-970. [back]
3. Post, A. (1986). Anoplogasteridae. p. 767-768. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. [back]
4. Watson, W. (1996). Anoplogastridae: fangtooths. p. 683-685. In H.G. Moser (ed.) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Atlas No. 33. 1505p. [back]
5. Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. Can. Bull. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 219: 731 p. [back]

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