Bluntsnout Slickhead, Xenodermichthys copei (Gill 1884)
Other Names: Black Slickhead, Bluntsnout Smooth-head, Cope's Bluntsnout Slickhead
Bluntsnout Slickhead, Xenodermichthys copei. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC By Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A bluish-black slickhead covered in many large, nodular photophores on the head and body, with a slightly paler head, a broadly rounded snout, a very large eye, and short jaws that do not extend beyond the middle of the eye.
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Bray, D.J. 2017, Xenodermichthys copei in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1851
Bluntsnout Slickhead, Xenodermichthys copei (Gill 1884)
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Distribution |
Off Newcastle, New South Wales, around southern Australia to NW of Port Hedland, Western Australia; also Norfolk Ridge just outside Australian EEZ, and probably north into the Coral Sea on the east coast. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical Atlantic Indo-west-central Pacific (New Caledonia). |
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Features |
Dorsal fin 29–31; Anal fin 28–29; Pectoral fin 7–8; Pelvic fin 6; Gill rakers 7–9 + 20–22 = 28–32. Head short, length 23–24% SL; eye large, diameter 30–31% HL; jaw to mid-line of eye; head and body covered in many large, nodular photophores on the head and body; luminous tissue along bases of dorsal and anal fins. |
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Feeding |
Feeds mostly on crustaceans (euphausiids, copepods, amphipods, and decapod zoea), but also ostracods, and small cephalopods. |
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Species Citation |
Aleposomus copei Gill 1884, American Naturalist 18: 433. Type locality: North Atlantic, 37°12´N, 69°39´W, depth 2949 fathoms. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2017 |
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Bluntsnout Slickhead, Xenodermichthys copei (Gill 1884)
References
Badcock, J. & Larcombe, R.A. 1980. The sequence of photophore development in Xenodermichthys copei (Pisces: Alepocehalidae). Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 60(02): 277-294.
Nielsen, J., Knudsen, S. & Uiblein, F. 2015. Xenodermichthys copei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T15149335A44738200. Downloaded on 05 September 2017.
Sazonov, Y.I. & Ivanov, A.N. 1980. Slickheads (Alepocephalidae and Leptochilichthyidae) from thalassobathyal zone of the Indian Ocean. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Moskva 110: 7-104 figs 1-25 [in Russian]
Sazonov, Y.I. & Markle, D.F. 1999. Family Alepocephalidae. pp. 1888-1893 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068.
Sazonov, Y.I. & Williams, A. 2001. A review of the alepocephalid fishes (Argentiniformes, Alepocephalidae) from the continental slope of Australia: Part I. Journal of Ichthyology 41(suppl. 1): 1-36
Williams, A., Last, P.R., Gomon, M.F. & Paxton, J.R. 1996. Species composition and checklist of the demersal ichthyofauna of the continental slope off Western Australia (20–35º). Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 135-155
Williams, A. & Sazonov, Y.I. 2008. Family Alepocephalidae and Platytroctidae. pp. 201-210 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp.
Williams, A. & Stewart, A.L. 2015. Family Alepocephalidae. pp. 354-376 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 2 pp. 1-576.
