Lonchopisthus ancistrus, Hook jawfish

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Lonchopisthus ancistrus Smith-Vaniz & Walsh, 2017

Hook jawfish
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> Ovalentaria/misc (Various families in series Ovalentaria) > Opistognathidae (Jawfishes)
Etymology: Lonchopisthus: Greek, logche = lance + Greek, opisthe = behind (Ref. 45335);  ancistrus: Name from Greek 'ankistron' for fish-hook, referring to the strongly hooked posterior end of the maxilla; noun in apposition..

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

marino; rango de profundidad 110 - 220 m (Ref. 116588). Deep-water

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Point map | Introducciones | Faunafri

Western Central Atlantic: only from the Gulf of Mexico and off Honduras.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 8.9 cm SL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 116588)

Short description Morfología | Morfometría

Espinas dorsales (total): 10 - 11; Radios blandos dorsales (total): 12-13; Espinas anales 3; Radios blandos anales: 11 - 12; Vértebra: 26 - 27. This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: posterior end of maxilla is strongly hooked; membranes connecting maxilla and premaxilla and covering inner posterior part of dentary pale; D X-XI,12-13; A III,11-12; branched caudal-fin rays 11-13 (exceptionally 5); cheek and opercle are naked; oblique body-scale rows in longitudinal series 33-39; has a very long pelvic fins, 39.4-75.3% SL; with L. lemur, differs from congeners in lacking an inner premaxillary dark stripe and having fewer numbers of segmented dorsal and anal-fin rays and associated unbranched rays (Ref. 116588).

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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Smith-Vaniz, W.F. and S.J. Walsh, 2017. Revision of the jawfishes genus Lonchopisthus with description of a new Atlantic species (Teleostei: Opistognathidae). J. Ocean Sci. Found. 28:52-89. (Ref. 116588)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 09 October 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: Género, Especie | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Árbol de la vida | Wikipedia: Go, búsqueda | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Expediente Zoológico

Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5312   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  3.5   ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).