Gold salmon

Gold salmon
Golden salmon ( Argentina silus )
Systematics
Subclass : Neuflosser (Neopterygii) Subclass : Real bony fish (Teleostei) Overcohort : Clupeocephala Cohort : Euteleosteomorpha Order : Golden salmon (Argentiniformes) Family : Gold salmon
Scientific name
Argentinidae
Bonaparte , 1846

The golden salmon (Argentinidae) live in the Atlantic , the Mediterranean , the Indian Ocean and the Pacific . The largest and eponymous species, the golden salmon ( Argentina silus ), lives in the North Atlantic from Svalbard to Ireland , also in deeper areas of the North Sea , and from the Davis Strait to the Newfoundland Bank .

features

Gold salmon have a slim body covered with round scales and grow to be 8 to 70 centimeters long. Your eyes are big and have fat lids . The dorsal fin sits in front of the pelvic fins . The pectoral fins set deep. An adipose fin is present and is located above the anal fin . Pyloric tubes (Appendices pyloricae) are present. The fish have four to six gill rays and 43 to 70, usually 46 to 55 vertebrae .

Fin formula : dorsal 10–14, anal 10–17, ventral 10–15, pectoral 11–25

Genera and species

Argentina striata

There are 26 species in two genera:

• Genus Argentina Linnaeus, 1758
  • Argentina aliceae Cohen & Atsaides, 1969
  • Argentina australiae Cohen, 1958
  • Argentina brucei Cohen & Atsaides, 1969
  • Argentina elongata Hutton, 1879
  • Argentina euchus Cohen, 1961
  • Argentina kagoshimae Jordan & Snyder, 1902
  • Argentina sialis Gilbert, 1890
  • Golden salmon ( Argentina silus ) (Ascanius, 1775)
  • Glass eye ( Argentina sphyraena ) Linnaeus, 1758
  • Argentina striata Goode & Bean, 1896
• Genus Glossanodon Guichenot, 1867
  • Glossanodon australis Kobilyansky, 1998
  • Glossanodon elongatus Kobilyansky, 1998
  • Glossanodon leioglossus (Valenciennes, 1848)
  • Glossanodon lineatus (Matsubara, 1943)
  • Glossanodon macrocephalus Bineesh & Endo, 2019
  • Glossanodon melanomanus Kobilyansky, 1998
  • Glossanodon polli Cohen, 1958
  • Glossanodon pseudolineatus Kobilyansky, 1998
  • Glossanodon pygmaeus Cohen, 1958
  • Glossanodon semifasciatus (Kishinouye, 1904)
  • Glossanodon struhsakeri Cohen, 1970

Web links

Commons : Argentinidae  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gold salmon on Fishbase.org (English)

literature

• Joseph S. Nelson, Fishes of the World , John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7
• Kurt Fiedler: Textbook of Special Zoology, Volume II, Part 2: Fish . Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena, 1991, ISBN 3-334-00339-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bineesh, K., Nashad, M., Kumar, KVA & Endo, H. (2019): Glossanodon macrocephalus , a new argentine fish (Argentinidae) from the Arabian Sea. Zootaxa, 4688 (2): 289-294.