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Species of fish
The salmon smooth-head (Conocara salmoneum ), also called the deepsea slickhead ,
[3] is a
species of fish in the family
Alepocephalidae .
[4]
[5]
[6]
Description
The salmon smooth-head is brownish in colour.
[7] Its head is large, about a third of its length.
[8] Its maximum length is 73 centimetres (2.40 ft).
[9] It has 25–27 anal
soft rays .
[10]
Habitat
The salmon smooth-head lives in the
Atlantic Ocean and
Pacific Ocean ;
[11] it is
bathypelagic , living at depths of 2,400–4,500 m (7,900–14,800 ft).
[12]
References
^ Museum), Percy (Butch) Hulley (South Africa (July 11, 2012).
"IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Conocara salmoneum" . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
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"WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Conocara salmoneum (Gill & Townsend, 1897)" . www.marinespecies.org .
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"Resource Inventory of Marine and Estuarine Fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: A Checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean Species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border" . U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, National Biological Information Infrastructure. August 19, 2005 – via Google Books.
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"Boletin de Ciencias Marinas" . University of Miami Press. August 19, 1985 – via Google Books.
^ Richards, William J. (August 8, 2005).
Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic, Two Volume Set . CRC Press.
ISBN
9780203500217 – via Google Books.
^ Priede, Imants G. (August 10, 2017).
Deep-Sea Fishes: Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries . Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
9781316033456 – via Google Books.
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"Conocara salmoneum | NBN Atlas" . species.nbnatlas.org .
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"Marine Species Identification Portal : Salmon smooth-head - Conocara salmonea" . species-identification.org .
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"WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Conocara salmoneum (Gill & Townsend, 1897)" . www.marinespecies.org .
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"Conocara salmoneum, Salmon smooth-head" . www.fishbase.se .
^ Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United (August 19, 2002).
The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic . Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
ISBN
9789251048269 – via Google Books.
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"Conocara salmoneum (Gill & Townsend, 1897)" . www.gbif.org .