Published December 31, 2016 | Version v1
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Phosichthyidae

Description

Family Phosichthyidae

Polymetme corythaeola (Alcock, 1898) —Rendezvous fish

124 specimens were caught at depths between 720 and 896 m. Length data were available for 82 specimens ranging from 10 to 21 cm TL (16.8±2.7). Habitat and Distribution: benthopelagic off continental and island slopes and seamounts in the Atlantic, eastern Pacific and Indo-West Pacific oceans. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), LV (FishBase).

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Published as part of Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), pp. 293-333 in Zootaxa 4067 (3) on page 309, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256670

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Biodiversity

Family
Phosichthyidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Stomiiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
family