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Monognathus ozawai Bertelsen & Nielsen, 1987

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> Saccopharyngiformes (Swallowers and gulpers) > Monognathidae (Onejaws)
Etymology: Monognathus: Greek, monos = one + Greek, gnathos = jaw (Ref. 45335);  ozawai: Named for Takakazu Ozawa who allowed the authors to describe the only Japanese specimen of this rare genus..
More on authors: Bertelsen & Nielsen.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

marino batipelágico. Deep-water

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Northwest Pacific: Only known from the type locality south of the Ryukyu Islands.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.5 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 34506)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 96; Radios blandos anales: 66. M. ozawai differs from the other species of the genus by the following combination of characters: head short, snout blunt and short, skull length 5.5% TL, rostral fang with dorsal profile slightly convex forming an almost straight line with frontal profile of skull, dorsal fin origin above myomere number 5, anal fin origin below dorsal fin ray number 40 and pectoral fin about 1% TL.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Pelagic, caught in an open ring trawl (Ref. 34506).

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Bertelsen, E. and J.G. Nielsen, 1987. The deep sea eel family Monognathidae (Pisces, Anguilliformes). Steenstrupia, 13(4):141-198. (Ref. 34506)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 13 August 2019

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5001   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00102 (0.00046 - 0.00225), b=3.06 (2.88 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  3.1   ±0.30 se; based on food items.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).