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Teleostei (teleosts) > Lophiiformes (Anglerfishes) > Ogcocephalidae (Batfishes)
Etymology: Halieutopsis: Greek, halieutis = fisher + Greek, opsis = apperance (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Smith & Radcliffe.

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Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 430 - 612 m (Ref. 127411). Deep-water

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Indo-West Pacific: Taiwan, Philippines. Indonesia and western Australia.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 40825)

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 5 - 6; Anal soft rays: 4. This species is distinguished by the following characters: Body disk box-like, not very depressed; eyes directed laterally, not dorsally; interorbital space is very broad (19.7-22.7% SL); illicial cavity with downward-directed triangular opening only visible in ventral view; trilobed esca uniquely with a mass of filaments; ventral surface of the body without tubercles or naked; tubercles on rest of the body surface, including tail, simple except for small, trifid principal tubercle on rostrum, bifurcate tubercles on the disk margin, and bifurcate or trifid subopecular tubercles (weak, not especially enlarged compared to neighboring tubercles); lateral-line neuromasts: body series 9-14, preopercular series 3-5, dorsolateral branch of subopercular series 3-5 (Ref. 127411).

Minimum depth from Ref. 58018.

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Ho, H.-C., 2021. Taxonomy and distribution of the deep-sea batfish genus Halieutopsis (Teleostei: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of five new species. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 10(1):34. (Ref. 127411)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 13 August 2019

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: of no interest

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 11.3 - 18.8, mean 13.1 °C (based on 78 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5010 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.02344 (0.00968 - 0.05678), b=2.94 (2.73 - 3.15), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.2 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Halieutopsis simula (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912)