Northern smoothtongue (Leuroglossus schmidti)

Scientific name: Leuroglossus schmidti Rass, 1955

Northern smoothtongue (Leuroglossus schmidti)

The Northern smoothtongue (Leuroglossus schmidti) is a marine fish of the family Bathylagidae.

Biology

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10-11; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 11 - 14; Vertebrae: 47 - 52. Body slender and compressed. Anal fin base short, and almost equal to dorsal fin base. snout pointed. Eye diameter shorter than snout length. Upper jaw shorter than lower jaw. Teeth present on lower jaw, prevomer, palatine, but not on upper jaw. Branchiostegals, 2. Color silvery, dusky on dorsal surface and fins.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Leuroglossus schmidti
Family
Bathylagidae (Deep-sea smelts)
Order
Osmeriformes (Smelts)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
15.0
Depth range
0–1800 m (0–5906 ft)
Environment
Marine; bathypelagic; depth range 0 - 1800 m
Climate
Deep-water
Distribution
North Pacific: southeastern Hokkaido, Japan to Navarin Canyon in the Bering Sea and southern British Columbia, Canada. Possibly in Kamchatka. Regarded as a subspecies of Leuroglossus stilbius, Gilbert 1890 but Peden (1981) presented evidence for separating the two and Dunn (1983) placed them in the genus Leuroglossus.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: of no interest

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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