Twinray dragonfish (Eustomias satterleei)

Scientific name: Eustomias satterleei Beebe, 1933

The Twinray dragonfish (Eustomias satterleei) is a marine fish of the family Stomiidae.

Species facts

Scientific name
Eustomias satterleei
Family
Stomiidae (Barbeled dragonfishes)
Order
Stomiiformes (Lightfishes and Dragonfishes)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
14.9
Environment
Marine; bathypelagic
Climate
Deep-water
Distribution
Atlantic, Indian and Pacific: 40-20?N and 80-30?W in the North Atlantic; near 20?S and 30?W in the South Atlantic; near Hawaii and scattered locations in the western and southern Pacific; two stations in the southern Indian Ocean.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: of no interest
Resilience
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.)

Sources

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

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