Bregmaceros atlanticus

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	GADIFORMES	BREGMACEROTIDAE

Scientific Name:

Bregmaceros atlanticus

Species Authority:

Goode & Bean, 1886

Common Name/s:

English	–	Antenna Codlet
Spanish	–	Bacalete Antena, Ciliado

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2010
Assessor/s:	Iwamoto, T.
Reviewer/s:	Collen, B., Richman, N., Beresford, A., Chenery, A. & Ram, M.
Contributor/s:	De Silva, R., Milligan, H., Lutz, M., Batchelor, A., Jopling, B., Kemp, K., Lewis, S., Lintott, P., Sears, J., Wilson, P. & Smith, J. and Livingston, F.
Justification: Bregmaceros atlanticus has been assessed as Least Concern. This broadly distributed species is not known to be impacted by any major threats. It is also reported to be abundant in areas of its range.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Bregmaceros atlanticus is found only in subtropical to tropical waters of the Atlantic: the eastern Atlantic from Madeira to Angola, in the western Atlantic from New Jersey to the Guianas including the Gulf of Mexico. A single specimen has been found from the Straits of Sicily and two individuals have been found in the stomach contents of the lizardfish, Saurida undosquamis, off the coast of Antalya, Turkey.
Countries:	Native: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Benin; Cameroon; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Equatorial Guinea; French Guiana; Gabon; Ghana; Guatemala; Guinea; Guyana; Haiti; Italy (Sicilia); Jamaica; Liberia; Mauritania; Mexico; Morocco; Namibia; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Panama; Portugal (Madeira); Saint Kitts and Nevis; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Turkey; United States (Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:	Native: Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – western central
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Population [top]

Population:	The Lesser Bream is reported to be locally abundant in the northern Gulf of Mexico, but seems to be rare along the east coast of Florida (Dawson 1966).
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Bregmaceros atlanticus is a pelagic, oceanodromous species. Little is known about the precise depths that B. atlanticus inhabits although it has been collected in the epi-/mesopelagic zone. Since it was found in the stomach of the lizardfish, Saurida undosqamis which is rarely found deeper than 100 m, it may also inhabit shallow waters as well as deep. This species mainly feeds upon crustaceans, but also feeds on zooplankton and phytoplankton.
Systems:	Marine

Habitat and Ecology:

Bregmaceros atlanticus is a pelagic, oceanodromous species. Little is known about the precise depths that B. atlanticus inhabits although it has been collected in the epi-/mesopelagic zone. Since it was found in the stomach of the lizardfish, Saurida undosqamis which is rarely found deeper than 100 m, it may also inhabit shallow waters as well as deep. This species mainly feeds upon crustaceans, but also feeds on zooplankton and phytoplankton.

Systems:

Marine

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	It is unlikely that major widespread threats are impacting Bregmaceros atlanticus. Species from the Bregmacerotidae family are of no commercial importance in the western central Atlantic but specimens of Bregmacerotidae are taken as by-catch in some commercial fisheries (FAO 2002).

Major Threat(s):

It is unlikely that major widespread threats are impacting Bregmaceros atlanticus. Species from the Bregmacerotidae family are of no commercial importance in the western central Atlantic but specimens of Bregmacerotidae are taken as by-catch in some commercial fisheries (FAO 2002).

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	There are no species-specific conservation measures in place, or needed, for Bregmaceros atlanticus.

Conservation Actions:

There are no species-specific conservation measures in place, or needed, for Bregmaceros atlanticus.

Citation:	Iwamoto, T. 2010. Bregmaceros atlanticus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 May 2013.
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