Diagnostic Description
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Body and tail strongly compressed, snout round and short, no spine on tip. Head and body uniformly whitish, margins of median fins light brown, jaws, pelvic fins, mouth and gill cavities deep brown. Peritoneum and stomach deep brown, intestine yellowish.
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Morphology
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Dorsal soft rays (total): 89; Analsoft rays: 74
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Biology
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A benthopelagic species at bathyal depth (Ref. 56809). Found on the continental slope (Ref. 75154). Rare species (Ref. 34024). Reproductive strategy possibly similar to other members of this family featuring oviparity, with oval pelagic eggs floating in a gelatinous mass (Ref. 205).
Importance
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fisheries: of no interest
分布
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可能分布於全世界各熱帶及亞熱帶海域。臺灣分布於東北部海域。
利用
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非常少見，所以就算一般漁民撈獲，也只是棄置於下雜魚堆中，除了學術研究之外，食用的經濟價值並不大。
描述
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體圓而延長，頭背高，近尾部處則是逐漸側扁。吻前緣圓，無棘突。無鬚。在鰓蓋骨及前鰓蓋骨的後緣各有一根長的強棘。背鰭和臀鰭非常的長，一直延伸至尾鰭部位，相癒合在一起，背鰭鰭條數83-94，臀鰭鰭條數69-80；腹鰭位於喉部，已經退化成2條延長絲狀鰭；尾鰭鰭條數8-9。頭及體一致呈白色，兩頜、腹鰭及鰓裂暗褐色。背鰭和臀鰭的外緣顏色淡褐色。
棲地
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主要棲息於大陸棚砂泥底質環境，大約在200-2500公尺左右深度的水層中，以小型魚類及甲殼類為主食。
Gargoyle cusk
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Gargoyle cusk: Brief Summary
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The gargoyle cusk (Xyelacyba myersi) is a species of cusk-eel from the subfamily Neobythitinae of the family Ophidiidae. This species grows to a length of 57 centimetres (22 in) TL. It is the only known member of its genus. The specific name honours George S. Myers (1905-1985) of Stanford University who taught the describer, Daniel Cohen, ichthyology. It is a rare benthopelagic fish which occurs at depths of 984–2,500 metres (3,228–8,202 ft) around the world, other than the eastern Pacific, in tropical and subtropical latitudes.
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Distribution
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Hudson Canyon to the Bahamas
North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
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Habitat
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nektonic
North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
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Habitat
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Known from seamounts and knolls
Stocks, K. 2009. Seamounts Online: an online information system for seamount biology. Version 2009-1. World Wide Web electronic publication.
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