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Polymixia carmenae Caixeta, Oliveira & Melo, 2024

Brazilian beardfish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Polymixiiformes (Beardfishes) > Polymixiidae (Beardfishes)
Etymology: Polymixia: Greek, poly = a lot of + Greek, myxos = mucus (Ref. 45335); carmenae: Named for Carmen Lúcia Del Bianco Rossi-Wongtschowski, a Brazilian ichthyologist, emeritus professor of the Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo, and former coordinator of the regional sub-committee Sul of the Program REVIZEE (Living Resources in the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone),.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; benthopelagic; depth range 160 - 600 m (Ref. 130894). Tropical; 13°S - 34°S (Ref. 130894)

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Southwestern Atlantic: Brazil and Uruguay.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 20.9 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 130894)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 5 - 6; Dorsal soft rays (total): 26 - 28; Anal spines: 4; Anal soft rays: 13 - 15; Vertebrae: 28. This species is distinguished by having the following characters: gill rakers on first gill arch 19-24; with main shaft of the first anal-fin proximal radial strongly arched; anterior process of the first anal-fin proximal radial elongated, about half length of the main shaft; pyloric caeca completely absent or numbering 46-71; spinoid scales with spines arranged in vertical rows; D 26-28 (rarely 22); postero-ventral edge of preopercle rounded; mature specimens with pigmentation of anal, dorsal and caudal fins inconspicuous, lacking a markedly darker margin (Ref. 130894).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Caixeta, H. de C., Oliveira, C. and M.R.S. de Melo, 2024. Another piece of the living fossil puzzle: A new species of Polymixia Lowe, 1836 (Polymixiiformes: Polymixiidae) from the western South Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 205:e104249:1-14. (Ref. 130894)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: of no interest
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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | National databases | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = No PD50 data   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01995 (0.00906 - 0.04395), b=3.01 (2.83 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  4.0   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (15 of 100).