Stylephorus chordatus, Tube-eye

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Stylephorus chordatus Shaw, 1791

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Stylephoriformes (Tube-eyes or thread-tails) > Stylephoridae (Tube-eyes or thread-tails)
Etymology: Stylephorus: Greek, style = column + Greek, pherein = to carry (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Shaw.

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

Marine; bathypelagic; depth range 300 - 800 m (Ref. 86942). Deep-water; 45°N - 37°S, 130°W - 20°E

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Tropical to subtropical in all oceans. Western Atlantic: southeastern Florida in USA and northeastern Gulf of Mexico through Lesser Antilles (Ref. 7251). Eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands (Ref. 6808); numerous specimens collected between the equator and approximately 20°N.

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Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 28.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4172)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 119-124; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 14 - 16. Body silvery, head dark violet (Ref. 4172).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

A mesopelagic (Ref. 6808) at 300-600 m at night, 625-800 during day (Ref. 58302) and uncommon species. Swims in a vertical position, probably migrates over 200-300 m vertical distance each day-night cycle. Feeds on copepods (Ref. 6741).

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Hulley, P.A., 1986. Stylephoridae. p. 404. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (Ref. 4172)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 07 May 2013

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 7.8 - 12.8, mean 9.7 °C (based on 112 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 1.5000   [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).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.0   ±0.00 se; based on food items.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (24 of 100).