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Dibranchus atlanticus is the type species of the genus Dibranchus, a name which prefixes di, meaning "two", on to branchus, meaning "gills", a reference to the only the second and third gill arches having gills, the fourth having no gill filaments. The specific epithet atlanticus, means "of the Atlantic". See more
The Atlantic batfish (Dibranchus atlanticus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ogcocephalidae, the deep-sea batfishes. It is found in deep … See more
Dibranchus atlanticus was first formally described in 1872 by the German zoologist Wilhelm Peters with its type locality given … See more
D. atlanticus is found in both the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean. Its range extends from the coasts of Canada and the United States, southwards through the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico to South America, as far south as Rio de Janeiro. … See more
D. atlanticus has a disc-shaped, vertically compressed body with a flat ventral surface, and grows to a standard length of 145 mm (6 in). The dorsal fin, which is set far back near the tail, has no spines and five to seven soft rays, and the anal fin has no spines and four … See more
This fish may be bioluminescent, as there has been a report that in the laboratory, its skin can emit flashes of light when stimulated with See more
This deep sea fish is of no interest to commercial fisheries but it is often caught in deep water trawl surveys and appears to be common. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed it as being a "least-concern species". See more
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Dibranchus atlanticus - Peters, 1876
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