Showy Bristlemouth
Cyclothone signata
Cyclothone signata, the showy bristlemouth, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Cyclothone.
Cyclothone alba was originally described as a subspecies of C. signata: Cyclothone signata alba, by Brauer in 1906.
From the article Cyclothone signata on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
What it does
The species is usually found to be bimodally distributed among the shallow and deep ends of the mesopelagic zone, and is thought to migrate vertically between them, feeding in the shallow areas, and descending to the deeper ocean to rest. The species is oviparous. Encounters with the species are rare, but one sample, taken off the coast of the Gulf of Maine in 1915, measured 23mm. Cyclothone bristlemouths are widely regarded as the most abundant vertebrates on earth, numbering in the trillions or higher.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 217977.