Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in Danish:
Slank sortsmelt
Common Names in English:
Pacific black smelt, pacific blacksmelt, Slender black smelt, slender blacksmelt
Common Names in Japanese:
Yase-soko-iwashi
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
太平洋深海鮭(細體海珍魚), 太平洋深海鲑(细体海珍鱼)
Common Names in Polish:
Glebik pacyficzny
Description
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Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,012 meters (0 to -19,724 feet).[1]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Class:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
()
- Order:
Salmoniformes
()
- Suborder:
Argentinoidei
()
- Family:
Bathylagidae
()
- Genus:
Bathylagus
()
- Günther, 1878
- Specific name:
pacificus
- Gilbert, 1890
- Scientific name: - Bathylagus pacificus Gilbert, 1890
- Specific name:
pacificus
- Gilbert, 1890
- Genus:
Bathylagus
(
- Family:
Bathylagidae
(
- Suborder:
Argentinoidei
(
- Order:
Salmoniformes
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Year from Eschmeyer[2].
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 18-Sep-2000
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Bathylagus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 12 species and subspecies in this genus:
B. antarcticus (Antarctic Deepsea Smelt) · B. callorhini (Ghost Smelt) · B. euryops (Goiter Blacksmelt) · B. greyae (Grey's Deepsea Smelt) · B. longirostris (Longsnout Blacksmelt) · B. milleri (Big-Scaled Black Smelt) · B. nigrigenys (Blackchin Blacksmelt) · B. ochotensis (Okhotsk Blacksmelt) · B. pacificus (Slender Black Smelt) · B. stilbius (California Smooth-Tongue) · B. stilbius stilbius (California Smooth-Tongue) · B. wesethi (Snubnose Blacksmelt)
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Further Reading
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- Biology of the seas of the U.S.S.R. Translated by S. Botcharskaya. New York, Interscience Publishers[1963] url p. 735.
- Breviora. 1958 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 4, p. 5.
- California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 258.
- Check list of the fishes of the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland. Ottawa, Printed by C. H. Parmelee, 1913. url , , .
- Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 143, p. 265, p. 281, p. 297.
- Discovery reports. London; Cambridge University Press. url p. 277.
- Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url , p. 129, p. 24, p. 26, p. 37, p. 617, p. 618.
- Fishery bulletin. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. url p. 639, p. 678.
- Ichthyoplankton and station data for California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations survey cruises in. .. [La Jolla, Calif.?]: National Marine Fisheries Service, 1987- url p. 109, p. 153, p. 163, p. 166, p. 175, p. 182, p. 183, p. 192, p. 204, p. 204, p. 205, p. 212, p. 214, p. 216, p. 218, p. 221, p. 225, p. 244, p. 249, p. 261, p. 269, p. 28, p. 283, p. 32, p. 46, p. 48, p. 49, p. 50, p. 50, p. 50, p. 51, p. 52, p. 53, p. 54, p. 54, p. 54, p. 56, p. 57, p. 58, p. 59, p. 60, p. 63, p. 65, p. 65, p. 66, p. 68, p. 68, p. 68, p. 68, p. 69, p. 70, p. 70, p. 71, p. 71, p. 74, p. 74, p. 75, p. 75, p. 76, p. 78, p. 79, p. 79, p. 79, p. 82, p. 83, p. 84, p. 88.
- Journal of morphology. Boston: Ginn & Co., [1887-1924] url p. 64.
- Keys to the fishes of Washington, Oregon and closely adjoining regions, by Leonard P. Schultz. Seattle, Wash., University of Washington Press, 1936. url p. 142, p. 221.
- NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 8.
- Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 8.
- 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. 157.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 13 1890 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url , p. 312, p. 50, p. 55, p. 646, p. 664.
- Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year. .. with appendixes Washington: G.P.O., 1914- url p. 69.
- Special bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1892- url p. 510.
- Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 42, p. 47, p. 49, p. 54, p. 57, p. 64, p. 65, p. 67, p. 69.
Notes
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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
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 8 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.
- Williams, Jeffrey T. (from FishBase).
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 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
- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
- Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
- University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 121754
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-52282
- Fishbase Species ID: 50896
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13781318
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 162086
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCHF02020
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 104402
Footnotes
- Mean = -1,340.380 meters (-4,397.572 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,230.690 based on 837 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
- Eschmeyer, W.N., Editor (1999). Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of November 1999. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in November 1999. [back]
