Preliminary Guide to the Identification of the Early Life History Stages of Bramid Fishes of the Western Central North Atlantic.

摘要

The bramids are a small family of perciform fishes that are oceanic and cosmopolitan in distribution with 21 species in seven genera in two subfamilies Braminae and Pteaclinae. Nine species in six genera are known from our area and they are listed in Table Bramidae 1. Distribution and habitat data are given in Table Bramidae 2. Most adults are pelagic and occasionally taken by long line vessels and young stages are taken at offshore stations, but all are generally uncommon. One species, Eumegistes brevorti, is taken near the bottom in deep water >300 m. They are small to medium size fishes with some reaching 1 m in length.