Anoplopoma fimbria

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Adults found on mud bottoms , from 305[1] to 2,740 m depth [1]. Young-of-the-year juveniles are pelagic and found on the surface and near-shore waters[2]. Adult sablefish, growing to 100 cm or more, live primarily in water deeper than 200 m and have been found as deep as 3000 m.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,012 meters (0 to -19,724 feet).[3]

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Diet

Feed on crustaceans, worms and small fishes [4].

Reproduction

Spawning by sablefish occurs in deep water (300-700 m ) along the continental slope with exact depth and season depending upon location. In Alaska, maximum spawning occurs in March through April, while between California and British Columbia spawning occurs earlier, from January to March. Eggs and larvae are collected primarily in deep water.

Migration

Oceanodromous . Generally localized, but some juveniles have been found to migrate over 2,000 miles in 6 or 7 years[2].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Anoplopoma fimbria • Anoplopoma merlangus Ayres • Gadus fimbria • Gadus fimbria Pallas • Scombrocottus salmoneus Peters

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Pallas, P. S. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium in extenso Imperio Rossico , et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicilia, mores et descriptiones, anatomen atque icones plurimorum. Vol. 3. Caesarea Academie Scientiarum; Petropoli. 428pp., 1814.

Comment: Author and year from Eschmeyer[5].

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 11-Jul-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Anoplopoma

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. fimbria (Candlefish)

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Further Reading

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• A guide to the study of fishes, New York, H. Holt, 1905. url , .
• A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905. url p. 438, p. xix.
• A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 38.
• A review of the fisheries in the contiguous waters of the state of Washington and British Columbia by Richard Rathbun. Washington?: G.P.O?, 1899? url .
• American fishes: a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture / by G. Brown Goode. New York: Standard Book Co., 1888, c1887. url p. 272, p. 364.
• American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture, Boston, L. C. Page[c1903]. url , , , .
• American food and game fishes. A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture, . by David Starr Jordan...and Barton Warren Evermann...illustrated with colored plates and text drawings, and with photographs from life, by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908. url p. 548.
• American food and game fishes: A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys of ready identification, life histories and methods of capture New York: Doubleday, Page & co., 1902. url , .
• American food and game fishes: a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture, by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann; with photos. from life by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908, c1902. url p. 498, p. 548.
• An annotated list of Puget Sound fishes, Olympia [Wash.]State printer, 1919. url , .
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Notes

Contributors

• American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Collette, Bruce B. (from FishBase).
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 9 providers.
• 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 05, 2008:

• Alaska Ocean Observing System: Arctic Ocean Diversity
• 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
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: NODC WOD01 Plankton Database
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: North Pacific Groundfish Observer (North Pacific Research Board)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 120008
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-22996
• Fishbase Species ID: 512
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13827394
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 167123
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFC4C01010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 102169

Footnotes

1. Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann (1983). A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 336 p. [back]
2. Armstrong, R.H. (1996). Alaska's fish. A guide to selected species. Alaska Northwest Books. 94 p. [back]
3. Mean = -751.000 meters (-2,463.911 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,095.640 based on 5,504 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
4. Clemens, W.A. and G.V. Wilby (1961). Fishes of the Pacific coast of Canada. 2nd ed. Fish. Res. Bd. Canada Bull. (68):443 p. [back]
5. Mecklenburg, C.W. (2003). Family Anoplopomatidae Jordan & Gilbert 1883 - sablefishes. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes No. 2, 3 pp. [back]

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