Cyclothone_signata

<i>Cyclothone signata</i>

Cyclothone signata

Species of fish

Cyclothone signata, the showy bristlemouth, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Cyclothone.[1][2]

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Cyclothone alba was originally described as a subspecies of C. signata: Cyclothone signata alba, by Brauer in 1906.[3]

Description

C. signata is disruptively colored,[4] typically being either gray or transparent.[5]

Ecology

The species is usually found to be bimodally distributed among the shallow and deep ends of the mesopelagic zone,[4] and is thought to migrate vertically between them, feeding in the shallow areas, and descending to the deeper ocean to rest.[6]

The species is oviparous.[2] Encounters with the species are rare, but one sample, taken off the coast of the Gulf of Maine in 1915, measured 23mm.[5][7]

References

  1. [1]
    "ITIS Standard Report Page: Cyclothone signata". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Archived from the original on 2011-10-29. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  2. [2]
    "Cyclothone signata, Showy bristlemouth". Fishbase. Archived from the original on 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  3. [3]
    "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cyclothone signata Garman, 1899". World Register of Marine Species. Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  4. [4]
    DeWitt, Floyd A. (1972-03-08). "Bathymetric Distributions of Two Common Deep-Sea Fishes, Cyclothone acclinidens and C. signata, off Southern California". Copeia. 1972 (1): 88–96. doi:10.2307/1442785. JSTOR 1442785.
  5. [5]
    "Cyclothone". Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Archived from the original on 2003-05-24. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  6. [6]
    DeWitt, Floyd A.; Cailliet, Gregor M. (1972-12-29). "Feeding Habits of Two Bristlemouth Fishes, Cyclothone acclinidens and C. signata (Gonostomatidae)". Copeia. 1972 (4): 868. doi:10.2307/1442749. JSTOR 1442749.
  7. [7]
    Bigelow, Henry B.; Schroeder, William C. (1953). Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. United States Government Printing Office. pp. 146–147. ISBN 978-0598917881.


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