Stenobrachius leucopsarus és una espècie de peix de la família dels mictòfids i de l'ordre dels mictofiformes.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 13 cm de longitud total. Nombre de vèrtebres: 35-38.FishBase Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald i H. Hammann, 1983. A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Estats Units. 336 p.

Reproducció És ovípar amb larves i ous planctònics.Moser, H.G. i E.H. Ahlstrom, 1996. Myctophidae: lanternfishes. p. 387-475. A: H.G. Moser (ed.) The early stages of fishes in the California Current Region. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Atlas Núm. 33. 1505 p.

Alimentació Menja peixos, copèpodes i eufausiacis.Collard, S.B., 1970. Forage of some eastern Pacific midwater fishes. Copeia 1970(2):348-354.Moku, M., K. Kawaguchi, H. Watanabe i A. Ohno, 2000. Feeding habits of three dominant myctophid fishes, Diaphus theta, Stenobrachius leucopsarus and Stenobrachius nannochir, in the subarctic and transitional waters of the western North Pacific. Mar. Eco. Prog. Ser. 207: 129-140.

Depredadors És depredat per Anoplopoma fimbria (Alaska), Brama japonica,Watanabe, H., T. Kubodera i S. Kawahara, 2006. Summer feeding habits of the Pacific pomfret Brama japonica in the transitional and subarctic waters of the central North Pacific J. Fish Biol. 68: 1436-1450. Theragra chalcogramma (Alaska), Pleurogrammus monopterygius (Illes Kurils),Orlov, A.M., 1997. On the feeding of atka mackerel Pleurogrammus monopterygius in the pacific waters of the Northern Kuril Islands. J. Ichthyol. 37(3):226-231.Onishchik, N.A., 1997. On the feeding of atka mackerel Pleurogrammus monopterygius (Hexagrammidae) in the area of the Vityaz Ridge. J. Ichthyol. 37(8):611-616. Atheresthes evermanni (Illes Kurils), Reinhardtius hippoglossoides,Yang, M.S. i P.A. Livingston, 1988. Food habits and daily ration of Greenland Halibut, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, in the eastern Bering Sea. Fish. Bull. 86(4):675-690. Salmonidae, Thunnus alalunga (Estats Units), Sebastes flavidus,Pereyra, W.T., W.G. Pearcy i F.E. Carvey, Jr., 1969. Sebastodes flavidus, a shelf rockfish feeding on mesopelagic fauna, with consideration on the ecological implications. J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 26(8): 2211-2215. Tactostoma macropus (Illes Kurils), Bathyraja maculata (Rússia), Bathyraja matsubarai (Rússia),Orlov, A.M., 1998. On feeding of mass species of deep-sea skates (Bathyraja spp., Rajidae) from the Pacific waters of the Northern Kurils and Southeastern Kamchatka. J. Ichthyol. 38(8):635-644. Prionace glauca (Estats Units)Harvey, J.T., 1989. Food habits, seasonal abundance, size, and sex of the blue shark, Prionace glauca, in Monterrey Bay, California. Calif. Fish and Game 75(1):33-44. i diversos ocells marins (Alaska).FishBase Iverson, K.L., 1962. Albacore food habits. p.11-46. A: L. Pinkas, M. S. Oliphant i I. L. K. Iverson (eds.) Food habits of albacore, bluefin tuna, and bonito in California waters. Fish. Bull.152.

Hàbitat És un peix marí i d'aigües profundes que viu entre 0-3.400 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.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba des del Japó fins al Mar de Bering i el nord de la Península de Baixa Califòrnia (Mèxic).Andriyashev, A.P. i N.V. Chernova, 1995. Annotated list of fishlike vertebrates and fish of the arctic seas and adjacent waters. J. Ichthyol. 35(1):81-123.Armstrong, R.H., 1996. Alaska's fish. A guide to selected species. Alaska Northwest Books. 94 p.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.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.Gorbatenko, K.M. i E.N. Il'inskii, 1992. Feeding behavior of the most common mesopelagic fishes in the Bering sea. J. Ichthyol. 32(2):52-60.Il'inskiy, E.N., A.A. Balanov i O.A. Ivanov, 1995. Rare mesopelagic fishes Scopelosaurus harryi, Arctozenus rissoi, Magnisudis atlantica and Tactostoma macropus from the Northwest Pacific. 2. Spatial distribution and biology. J. Ichthyol. 35(6):1-19.Matarese, A.C., A.W. Kendall, D.M. Blood i M.V. Vinter, 1989. Laboratory guide to early life history stages of Northeast Pacific fishes. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80:1-652.Miya, M., M. Yamaguchi i M. Okiyama, 1995. Midwater fishes off the Pacific coast of Boso Peninsula, central Japan: species composition, abundance, biomass, and zoogeographic affinities. Jap. J. Ichthyol. 42(3/4):237-248.Okiyama, M., 1988. An atlas of the early stage fishes in Japan. Tokai University Press, Tòquio (Japó). 1157 p.Quast, 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.

Longevitat Pot arribar a viure 8 anys.Hart, J.L., 1973. Pacific fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 180:740 p.

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