Albatrossia pectoralis és una espècie de peix de la família dels macrúrids i de l'ordre dels gadiformes.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 210 cm de llargària total i 86 kg de pes.FishBase

Reproducció És ovípar i les larves planctòniques.Ambrose, D.A., 1996. Macrouridae: grenadiers. p. 483-499. A H.G. Moser (ed.) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Atlas Núm. 33. 1505p.

Alimentació Els individus adults mengen, principalment, cefalòpodes, peixos i gambes, i, secundàriament, ctenòfors, equinoderms, cucs, crancs i amfípodes.Cohen, D.M., T. Inada, T. Iwamoto i N. Scialabba 1990. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 10. Gadiform fishes of the world (Order Gadiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cods, hakes, grenadiers and other gadiform fishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 10 (125). 442 p.

Depredadors És depredat per Anoplopoma fimbria (Illes Kurils)Orlov, A.M., A.A. Abràmov i A.M. Tokranov, 2007. Some biological features of giant grenadier Albatrossia pectoralis and popeye grenadier Coryphaenoides cinereus in the Pacific waters off the northern Kuril Islands and southeastern Kamchatka Conservation of Biodiversity of Kamchatka and Coastal Waters. Proc. 7th Intern. Sci. Conf. 28-29 de novembre de 2006, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. P. 120-148.Orlov, A.M., 1998. Demersal ichthyofauna of Pacific waters around the Kuril islands and Southeastern Kamchatka. Russ. J. Mar. Biol. 24(3):144-160.Orlov, A.M., 1997. The qualitative characteristic of feeding of the sablefish Anoplopoma fimbria with notes on its frequency in the Pacific waters of the North Kuril Islands and southeastern Kamchatka. J. Ichthyol. 37(1):33-40. i Reinhardtius hippoglossoides.Orlov, A.M. i I.N. Moukhametov, 2004. Feeding habits of Pacific black halibut Reinhardtius hippoglossoides matsuurae Jordan et Snyder, 1901 and Kamchatka flounder Atheresthes evermanni Jordan et Starks, 1904 in the western North Pacific. Bull. Sea Fish Inst. 1(161):43-59.FishBase

Hàbitat És un peix d'aigües profundes que viu entre 140-3500 m de fondària,Fedorov, V.V., I.A. Chereshnev, M.V. Nazarkin, A.V. Shestakov i V.V. Volobuev, 2003. Catalog of marine and freswater fishes of the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk. Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2003. 204 p. tot i que, normalment, ho fa entre 700-1100.Tuponogov, V.N., 1993. Grenadiers P. 112-116 a F.S. Terziev (Ed.). Project "The seas". Hydrometeorology and Hydrochemistry of the seas. Vol. 9. Sea of Okhotsk. Sankt-Peterburg, Gidrometeoizdat.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba des del nord del Japó fins al Mar d'Okhotsk,Balanov, A.A. i E.N. Il'inskii, 1992. Species composition and biomass of mesopelagic fishes in the sea of Okhotsk and the Bering sea. J. Ichthyol. 32(4):85-93. el Mar de Bering,Allen, M.J. i G.B. Smith, 1988. Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 66, 151 p. el Golf d'AlaskaQuast, J.C. i E.L. Hall, 1972. List of fishes of Alaska and adjacent waters with a guide to some of their literature. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS SSRF-658, 47 p.Evermann, B.W. i E.L. Goldsborough, 1907. The fishes of Alaska. Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 26: 219-360. i el nord de Baixa Califòrnia (Mèxic).Fadeev, N.S., 2005. Guide to biology and fisheries of fishes of the North Pacific Ocean. Vladivostok, TINRO-Center. 366 p.Hart, J.L., 1973. Pacific fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 180:740 p.

Longevitat Pot arribar a viure 56 anys.Burton, E.J., 1999. Radiometric age determination of the giant grenadier (Albatrossia pectoralis) using 210Pb: 226Ra disequilibria. MS thesis, San Francisco State University.

Referències

Bibliografia Beamish, R.J., K.D. Leask, O.A. Ivanov, A.A. Balanov, A.M. Orlov i B. Sinclair, 1999. The ecology, distribution, and abundance of midwater fishes of the Subarctic Pacific gyres. Prog. Oceanog. 43:399-442. Borets, L.A.. 1986. Ichthyofauna of the northwestern and Hawaiian submarine ranges. J. Ichthyol. 26(3):1-13. Cailliet, G.M., A.H. Andrews, E.J. Burton, D.L. Watters, D.E. Kline i L.A. Ferry-Graham, 2001. Age determination and validation studies of marine fishes: do deep-dwellers live longer? Exp. Geront. 36:739-764. Chuchukalo, V.I., L.S. Kodolov i V.N. Tuponogov, 1998. Feeding of some commercial fishes on the continental slope of the Far Eastern seas Izv. TINRO 124: 570-583. Endo, H., M. Yabe i K. Amaoka, 1993. Occurrence of the macrourid alevins genera Albatrossia and Coryphaenoides in the northern Pacific Ocean. Jap. J. Ichthyol. 40(2):219-226.

Geistdoerfer, P. 1986. Macrouridae. p. 644-676. A P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen i E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, París. Vol. 2. Geistdoerfer, P. 1990. Macrouridae. p. 541-563. A J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post i L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisboa; SEI, París; i UNESCO, París. Vol. 2. Helfman, G., B. Collette i D. Facey: The Diversity of Fishes. Blackwell Science, Malden, Massachusetts (Estats Units), 1997. . Iwamoto, T. 1999. Order: Gadiformes. Macrouridae (sometimes Coryphaenoididae, Bathygadidae, Macrourididae, Trachyrincidae, in part, in literature). p. 1986-1992. A K.E. Carpenter i V.H. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the WCP. Vol. 3. Batoid fishes, chimaeras and bony fishes part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). FAO, Roma.

Novikov, N.P., 1970. Biology of giant grenadier Chalinura pectoralis in the North Pacific Ocean. Trudy VNIRO 70 - Izv. TINRO 72: 300-326. Pautov, G.P., 1975. Age and growth of giant (Nematonurus pectoralis), popeye (Coryphaenoides cinereus) and Pacific (Coryphaenoides acrolepis) grenadiers in the North Pacific. Izv. TINRO 96: 181-185. Pitruk, D.L. i V.V. Federov, 1990. A new species of the genus Osteodiscus Stein (Liparididae) from the Sea Okhotsk. J. Ichthyol. 30(8):112-118.

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