Blackbelly rosefish
| Helicolenus dactylopterus (Delaroche, 1809) | ||||
| Family: | Sebastidae (Rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads) |
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| Order: | Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei | |||
| Class: | Teleostei | |||
| English name: | Blackbelly rosefish | |||
| Distribution: | Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Venezuela. Eastern Atlantic: Iceland (Ref. 12462) and Norway to the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Guinea, including Madeira, the Azores, and the Canary Islands; also Walvis Bay, Namibia to Natal, South Africa (Ref. 4313). | |||
| Adult biology: | Adults are found in soft bottom areas of the continental shelf and upper slope. They feed on both benthic and pelagic organisms (crustaceans, fishes, cephalopods, and echinoderms) (Ref. 4570). The reproductive mode is a zygoparous form of oviparity, intermediate between oviparity and viviparity (Ref. 36265, 79712). Larvae and juveniles are pelagic (Ref. 4570). Anterolateral glandular grooves with venom gland (Ref. 57406). Sold fresh (Ref. 27121). | |||
| Diagnosis: | Few melanophores in the postanal ventral contour in early larvae. Early larvae are enclosed in a jelly matrix. At 5 mm length the characteristic spinal armature begins to develop. . See also LARVAE table. | |||
| Climate Zone: | deep-water; 70°N - 46°S | |||
| Main Ref: | Halbeisen, H.-W.. 1988. (Ref. 39) | |||
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| Modified by: Luna, Susan M. |
Entered by: Froese, Rainer |
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