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Stomiidae (Barbeled dragonfishes) > Malacosteinae
Etymology: Aristostomias: Greek, aristos = the best + Greek, stoma = mouth (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi (1848–1922), Albert I, Prince of Monaco was an oceanographer who founded Monaco’s Institut Océanographique. He also (1911) created the Monte Carlo Rally, an automobile race designed to attract tourists to Monaco. (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Meio ambiente: milieu / Zona climática / intervalo de profundidade / faixa de distribuição
Ecologia
marinhas batipelágico; intervalo de profundidade 25 - 800 m (Ref. 58302). Deep-water; 35°N - 35°S, 98°W - 154°W
Eastern Atlantic: one record at 30°45'40"N, 25°47'W. Western Atlantic: between 35°and 6°N, including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; one record 34°S, 49°W (Ref. 6684). Indian Ocean: at 15°S. Western Pacific: north of western New Guinea, record at 22°N 172°E. Eastern Central Pacific: Hawaiian Islands.
Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturidade: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 18.2 cm SL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 13608)
Descrição suscinta
Chaves de identificação | Morfologia | Morfometria
Espinhos dorsais (total) : 0; Raios dorsais (total) : 23; Espinhos anais: 0; Raios anais : 27. Series of luminous dots running backward from area between eye and postorbital luminous organ; barbel ending in a poorly defined, slightly thickened terminal part (Ref. 13608).
Mesopelagic species (Ref. 27000). Also Ref. 58302.
Ciclo de vida ou comportamento de acasalamento
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
Goodyear, R.H., 1990. Malacosteidae. p. 338-340. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1. (Ref. 4469)
Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Ameaça para os humanos
Harmless
Uso pelos humanos
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Estimativas baseadas em modelos
Temperatura preferida (Ref.
123201): 10.6 - 22.3, mean 15.7 °C (based on 693 cells).
Índice de diversidade filogenética (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5156 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00407 (0.00160 - 0.01037), b=3.10 (2.87 - 3.33), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Nível Trófico (Ref.
69278): 4.2 ±0.73 se; based on food items.
Resiliência (Ref.
120179): médio(a), tempo mínimo de duplicação da população 1,4 - 4,4 anos (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Vulnerabilidade da pesca (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (12 of 100).
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