Animalia > Chordata > Osmeriformes > Bathylagidae > Leuroglossus > Leuroglossus stilbius

Leuroglossus stilbius (Southern smooth-tongue; Smoothtongue; California smooth-tongue; California smoothtongue)

Synonyms: Bathylagus stilbius; Bathylagus stilbius stilbius; Leuroglossus urotranus
Language: Mandarin Chinese; Russian; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The southern smoothtongue or California smoothtongue (Leuroglossus stilbius) is a type of ray-finned fish in the deep-sea smelt family Bathylagidae, that can grow to a length of 15 centimetres (6 in) TL. This fish is native to the northeastern Pacific Ocean from British Columbia to Oregon, and the Gulf of California where it is found at depths of 100 to 850 metres (300 to 2,800 ft).
View Wikipedia Record: Leuroglossus stilbius

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Aleutian Islands Biosphere Reserve 2720489 Alaska, United States    
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge IV 352 California, United States

Prey / Diet

Euphausia pacifica (Pacific krill)[1]
Hyperia galba[1]
Salpa fusiformis[1]
Thalia democratica[1]

Predators

Clupea pallasii pallasii (Pacific herring)[2]
Gigantactis macronema (Deepsea anglerfish)[3]
Phocoenoides dalli (Dall's Porpoise)[2]
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Turbot)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1THE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION AND FEEDING HABITS OF TWO COMMON MIDWATER FISHES (LEUROGLOSSUS STILBIUS AND STENOBRACHIUS LEUCOPSARUS) OFF SANTA BARBARA, GREGOR M. CAILLIET, ALFRED W. EBELING, CalCOFl Rep., Vol. 31, 1990, p. 106-123
♦ 2Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0