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Linophryne algibarbata Waterman, 1939 |
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photo by
Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada |
| Family: | Linophrynidae (Leftvents) | |||
| Max. size: | 4.1 cm TL (male/unsexed); 23.1 cm TL (female) | |||
| Environment: | bathypelagic; marine; depth range 400 - 2200 m | |||
| Distribution: | Northeast Atlantic: Iceland. Northwest Atlantic (Ref. 12965). | |||
| Diagnosis: | Dorsal soft rays (total): 3-3; Anal soft rays: 2-3. Metamorphosed females distinguished by the following characteristics: globular escal bulb, surrounded distally and laterally by a blunt ridge in small specimens; absence of escal filaments or other appendages; barbel divided at base into 4 primary branches of nearly equal length, 40-86% SL, each with varying number of secondary and tertiary branches, more or less prolonged into filaments, each with distal photophore; concentration of subdermal melanophores on caudal peduncle; males with pointed sphenotic spines (Ref. 86949). | |||
| Biology: | ||||
| IUCN Red List Status: | Least Concern (LC); Date assessed: 11 October 2018 Ref. (130435) | |||
| Threat to humans: | harmless | |||