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Classification / Names / Names
Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Pelagic; depth range 8 - 1270 m (Ref. 123763). Temperate; 79°N - 62°S, 180°W - 180°E
Arctic, Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Antarctic: throughout the Arctic, from Svalbard, then south to South Shetland Islands. Temperate to polar.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 15.0 cm H male/unsexed; (Ref. 1094)
Inhabits shallow water (Ref. 116516). Vertically oriented, cruising up or down using ciliated mucous covered oral lobes; feeds on copepods, euphausiids and other small zooplankton (Ref. 2376).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the phylum Ctenophora are hermaphroditic. Life cycle: Eggs develop into planktonic juveniles called cydippid and later gradually adopt the form of adults.
Greve, W. 1975. (Ref. 1094)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.