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Teleostei (teleosts) > Lampriformes (Velifers, tube-eyes and ribbonfishes) > Trachipteridae (Ribbonfishes)
Etymology: Trachipterus: Greek, trachys, -eia, -ys = rough + Greek, pteron = wing, fin (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Ramsay.

Issue
Trachipterus arawatae Clarke, 1881 is a separated valid species in ECoF.

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

Marine; brackish; bathypelagic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range ? - 1000 m (Ref. 9563). Deep-water

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Western Indian Ocean: South Africa and Reunion. Eastern Indian Ocean: southern Australia. Southwest Pacific: New Zealand. Southwest Atlantic: Brazil and Argentina.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 220 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 47377); common length : 200 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 9563)

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 166-173. Silvery in color except for front of head, interorbital area, dorsal part of upper jaw, and tip of lower jaw which are black (Ref. 2713).

Oceanic and mesopelagic (Ref. 7300). Enters estuaries (Ref. 9563). Feeds on pelagic crustaceans (Ref. 27637); fishes, squids, urochordatans, and nematodes (Anisakidae) were found in the stomach of specimens caught off the coasts of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil (Ref. 56498).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators

May, J.L. and J.G.H. Maxwell, 1986. Trawl fish from temperate waters of Australia. CSIRO Division of Fisheries Research, Tasmania. 492 p. (Ref. 9563)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 126983)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 11 October 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

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Trachipterus jacksonensis (Ramsay, 1881)