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Australian Faunal Directory FishBase Names Scientific source: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation go to Discover Life's Facebook group Following modified from Australian Faunal Directory    Top | See original &pull 20q v5.145 20180528: Error 301 Moved Permanently http://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/916bc817-5bda-48d5-9a19-f3da1f4f366e/ Following modified from FishBase    Top | See original http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Stomias&speciesname=boa ---> http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Stomias&speciesname=boa http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Stomias&speciesname=boa ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Stomias&speciesname=boa https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Stomias&speciesname=boa ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/summary/Stomias-boa.html You can sponsor this page Common name (e.g. trout) contains begins with begins with ends with is Genus + Species (e.g. Gadus morhua) About this page More Info Plus d'info Mais info Languages Arabic Bahasa/Malay Bangla Chinese(Si) Chinese(Tr) Deutsch English Español Farsi Français Greek Hindi Italiano Japanese Lao Nederlands Português(Br) Português(Pt) Russian Swedish Thai Vietnamese User feedbacks Comments &   Corrections Fish Forum Guest Book Facebook Citation Uploads Attach website Upload photo Upload video Upload   references Fish Watcher Related species Species in    Stomias Species in    Stomiidae - Classification - Stomiinae Stomiidae Stomiiformes Teleostei Chordata Animalia Stomias boa ( Risso , 1810 ) Boa dragonfish Upload your photos  and  videos Pictures | Google image Stomias boa Picture by Reyes, P. Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes( genus , species ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa Teleostei (teleosts) > Stomiiformes (Lightfishes and dragonfishes) > Stomiidae (Barbeled dragonfishes) > Stomiinae Etymology: Stomias: Greek, stoma = mouth; hard briddle (Ref. 45335 ) . More on author: Risso . Issue Publications needed to re-evaluate vaidity of this species. Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology Marine; bathypelagic; depth range 200 - 2173 m (Ref. 104125 ). Deep-water; 71°N - 50°S, 131°W - 180°E Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri Eastern Atlantic: western Mediterranean south to Mauritania, and from Angola to South Africa. Southwest Atlantic: Nunavut to Argentina. Southeast Pacific: Chile (Ref. 9068 ). Also, sub-Antarctic region of the Indian Ocean sector south to Heard Island. Size / Weight / Age Maturity: L m   ?   range ? - ? cm Max length : 32.2 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4464 ) Short description Morphology | Morphometrics Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 17-22; Anal spines : 0; Anal soft rays : 18 - 22. Body iridescent silver according to Ref. 3980; black to dark brown according to Ref. 27363. Barbel stem pale, one dark spot at base of bulb, filament blackish (Ref. 27363 ). Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic) Found in deep oceanic waters to more than 1,000 m depth, may migrate to near-surface waters at night (Ref. 4783 ). Bathypelagic (Ref. 58426 ). Feeds on midwater fishes and crustaceans (Ref. 4783 ). Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae Oviparous (Ref. 4783 ). Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators Gibbs, R.H. Jr. , 1984. Stomiidae. p. 338-340. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1. (Ref. 4783 ) IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435 )   Least Concern (LC)  ; Date assessed: 22 May 2013 CITES Not Evaluated CMS (Ref. 116361 ) Not Evaluated Threat to humans   Harmless Human uses FAO - Publication: search | FishSource | More information Countries FAO areas Ecosystems Occurrences Introductions Stocks Ecology Diet Food items Food consumption Ration Common names Synonyms Metabolism Predators Ecotoxicology Reproduction Maturity Spawning Spawning aggregation Fecundity Eggs Egg development Age/Size Growth Length-weight Length-length Length-frequencies Morphometrics Morphology Larvae Larval dynamics Recruitment Abundance BRUVS References Aquaculture Aquaculture profile Strains Genetics Electrophoreses Heritability Diseases Processing Nutrients Mass conversion Collaborators Pictures Stamps, Coins Misc. Sounds Ciguatera Speed Swim. type Gill area Otoliths Brains Vision Tools E-book | Field guide | Length-frequency wizard | Life-history tool | Point map | Classification Tree | Catch-MSY | Special reports Check for Aquarium maintenance | Check for Species Fact Sheets | Check for Aquaculture Fact Sheets Download XML Summary page | Point data | Common names | Photos Internet sources AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes : genus , species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome , nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | National databases | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go , Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoological Record Estimates based on models Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201 ): 1.7 - 13.2, mean 6.8 °C (based on 666 cells). Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 0.5010   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00093 (0.00053 - 0.00164), b=3.23 (3.07 - 3.39), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  4.0   ±0.64 se; based on food items. Resilience (Ref. 120179 ):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Low to moderate vulnerability (29 of 100). Nutrients (Ref. 124155 ):  Calcium = 38.7 [14.5, 89.5] mg/100g; Iron = 0.39 [0.18, 1.07] mg/100g; Protein = 17.6 [16.1, 19.1] %; Omega3 = 0.195 [0.074, 0.495] g/100g; Selenium = 18.7 [6.6, 51.9] μg/100g; VitaminA = 40.7 [5.1, 306.5] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.457 [0.254, 0.874] mg/100g (wet weight); Comments & Corrections Back to Search Random Species Back to Top Accessed through: Not available FishBase mirror site : localhost Page last modified by : mrius-barile - 20 July 2016 Fatal error : Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function checkEcotox(), 1 passed in /var/www/html/summary/speciessummary.php on line 2304 and exactly 3 expected in /var/www/html/includes/speciessummary.lib.php:2579 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/summary/speciessummary.php(2304): checkEcotox() #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/includes/speciessummary.lib.php on line 2579 Updated: 2024-04-19 16:08:03 gmt FishBase | Search | All Living Things | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation