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Teleostei (teleosts) > Scombriformes (Mackerels) > Gempylidae (Snake mackerels)
Etymology: Nealotus: Greek nealotos = recently catched (Ref. 45335).

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

Marine; bathypelagic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 914 - 1646 m (Ref. 5951). Deep-water; 47°N - 35°S, 180°W - 180°E (Ref. 6181)

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Atlantic, Indian and Pacific: in tropical and temperate waters.

The southernmost Indian Ocean occurrence (28°08'S, 49°06'E) was based on an unpublished record (R/V VITYAZ-II, station 2781).

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ?, range 15 - ? cm
Max length : 25.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 6181); common length : 15.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 6181)

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Dorsal spines (total): 20 - 21; Dorsal soft rays (total): 16 - 19; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 15 - 19; Vertebrae: 36 - 38. Body greatly elongated and compressed. Mouth large with fang-like teeth. Tips of both jaws with dermal processes. Color is blackish brown; dorsal and anal fins pale brown; buccal and branchial cavities and peritoneum black.

Oceanic, epipelagic to mesopelagic (Ref. 47377), migrating to the surface at night (Ref. 6181). Feeds on myctophids and other small fishes, squid and crustaceans (Ref. 6181). Matures at 15 cm SL (Ref. 36731).

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Nakamura, I. and N.V. Parin, 1993. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 15. Snake mackerels and cutlassfishes of the world (families Gempylidae and Trichiuridae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the snake mackerels, snoeks, escolars, gemfishes, sackfishes, domine, oilfish, cutlassfishes,. scabbardfishes, hairtails, and frostfishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(15):136 p. (Ref. 6181)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 22 August 2012

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: subsistence fisheries

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 3.4 - 7.6, mean 4.4 °C (based on 624 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00324 (0.00159 - 0.00657), b=3.09 (2.91 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 4.2 ±0.73 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Assuming tmax>3).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (21 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

Nealotus tripes Johnson, 1865