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Summary for Chlorophthalmus agassizi Larvae
Shortnose greeneye

Chlorophthalmus  agassizi  Bonaparte, 1840
Family:	Chlorophthalmidae (Greeneyes)
Order:	Aulopiformes
Class:	Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
English name:	Shortnose greeneye
Distribution:	Circumglobal in temperate and tropical regions. Eastern Atlantic: Spain to at least 19°S, including the Mediterranean, Canary Islands and Cape Verde. Western Atlantic: southern New England, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern South America (Ref. 7251). Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951).
Adult biology:	Found on the continental shelf and upper slope over mud and clay bottom. Catch data indicate a schooling habit. Feeds mainly on bottom-living invertebrates. Also known to feed on pelagic crustaceans like euphausiids, decapods and mysids (Ref. 27637). A hermaphroditic species. Marketed fresh and sometimes made into fishmeal (Ref. 6688). Young are pelagic, living near the surface, the adults are demersal, living between 50 and 1000 m depth (Ref. 47377).
Diagnosis:	At 9mm: primordial fin still there, 2 ventral black spots of melanoph.: 1 on peritoneum and 1 at the end of the tail. 1 dorsal melanoph. in correspondence with the ventral one. At 13 mm only 1 melanophore at the center of the urostyle. Round pectorals. See also LARVAE table.
Climate Zone:	deep-water; 5 - 13°C; 45°N - 19°S
Main Ref:	Bertolini, F., U. D'Ancona, E. Padoa Montalenti, S. Ranzi, L. Sanzo, A. Sparta, E. Tortonese and M. Vialli. 1956. (Ref. 65)
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	Checked: Giovanardi, Otello	Modified: Luna, Susan M.	Entered: Papasissi, Christine

	Ref.:				Glossary
		(e.g. 9948)				(e.g. urostyle)

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