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Body fairly elongate; mouth large; premaxillary teeth even; vomer without teeth. Pseudobranch absent; gillrakers on first arch 13, 3 on hypobranchial, a single raker in articulation of epi- and ceratobranchial; gill filaments short, fused basally in broad segment shape along hypobranchial; branchiostegal rays 12, 5 on epihyal. Dorsal-fin rays 12–14; pectoral-fin rays 9–10; pelvic-fin rays 6; anal-fin rays 17–20; dorsal and anal fin origins about opposite; last dorsal and Anal-fin rays not split to base; dorsal adipose fin absent; anus close to pelvic fin base. Vertebrae 31 (32). Scales absent.
Photophores SO absent, ORB 1, OP 2, BR 8 (9), IV 3 + 10; VAV 3–4 evenly spaced, one anterior to genital opening; AC 12, one between last anal and first procurrent ray; OA 6; opercular and pre-caudal glands inconspicuous. Color of white ground colour with few melanophores; membrane between posteriormost branchiostegal rays transparent or at most with single stellate melanophore between each pair of rays; brown pigment conspicuous between anal pterygiophores.
Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical oceanic waters.
Oceanic, mesopelagic; pre-metamorphic post-larvae at 25–150 m, juveniles and adults at 300 600 m; no diel vertical migrations.
Badcock J. 1984. Gonostomatidae. pp. 284–301. In: P.J.P. Whitehead MLB, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen, and E. Tortonese editor. Fishes of the Northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Paris: Unesco. p 1473 pp.
The following is a general description of the morphology of species of the genus Cyclothone from Badcock (1984).
Species of the genus typically small, fairly elongate. Pseudobranch absent; gill filaments longer in males; branchiostegal rays 13–14 (5–6 on epihyal). Dorsal- and anal-fin origins about opposite; last dorsal- and anal-fin rays not split to base; dorsal adipose fin absent; anus closer to pelvi-fin base than to anal-fin origin or a midpoint. Swimbladder regressed in adults. Scales present or absent.
Like many species of the genus, C. alba is hermaphroditic.
Males to 29 mm, females to 34 mm SL.
No data.
A syntype series: SMF 2108-12 (1, 12 10, 7, 2), 11941 (2); ZMB 17468-77 (5, 3, 2, 2, 5, 4, 2, 2, 5, 3), 22329-34 (8, 12, 2, 3, 3, 4); SNMBR I-10021 (2), I-10023 (1), I-10027 (1); SMNS 4486 (1), 4490 (2), 4492 (1); ZMB 17473-74 (4, 2); ZMH 8164-69 (8, 2, 7, 5, 3, 4).
Cyclothone alba és una espècie de peix pertanyent a la família dels gonostomàtids.[5]
És un peix marí, mesopelàgic[8][9][10] i batipelàgic[11] que viu entre 25 i 4.938 m de fondària (normalment, entre 300 i 800). No fa migracions verticals diàries.[7][6][12]
Es troba a l'Atlàntic (des d'Islàndia[13] fins a les regions tropicals i Sud-àfrica), el Pacífic occidental (el Japó,[14][15][16] Papua Nova Guinea[17] i Austràlia[18]), el Pacífic sud-oriental (el Perú) i el mar de la Xina Meridional.[19][20][21][6][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]
És inofensiu per als humans.[6]
Cyclothone alba és una espècie de peix pertanyent a la família dels gonostomàtids.
Cyclothone alba, commonly known as the bristlemouth, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Cyclothone. It is found across the world, in the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans.[1]
The species was originally described as a subspecies of Cyclothone signata: Cyclothone signata alba, by Brauer in 1906.[2]
Cyclothone alba, commonly known as the bristlemouth, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Cyclothone. It is found across the world, in the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans.
The species was originally described as a subspecies of Cyclothone signata: Cyclothone signata alba, by Brauer in 1906.
Cyclothone alba Cyclothone generoko animalia da. Arrainen barruko Gonostomatidae familian sailkatzen da.
Espezie hau Agulhasko itsaslasterran aurki daiteke.
Cyclothone alba Cyclothone generoko animalia da. Arrainen barruko Gonostomatidae familian sailkatzen da.
Cyclothone alba est une espèce de poissons appartenant à la famille des Gonostomatidae.
Cyclothone alba is een straalvinnige vissensoort uit de familie van borstelmondvissen (Gonostomatidae).[1] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1906 door Brauer.
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白圓罩鱼（学名：Cyclothone alba）為輻鰭魚綱巨口魚目鑽光魚科的其中一種，布于印度洋、太平洋西部与中部、大西洋以及南海等海域，垂直分布约800米，屬深海魚類。
