Banjo fish
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Drawing of banjos banjos |
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| Banjosidae | ||||||||||||
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| Banjos banjos | ||||||||||||
| ( Richardson , 1846) |
The banjo fish ( Banjos banjos ) is a perch-related fish that lives in the western Pacific . Its distribution area extends from the coasts of Korea , southern Japan , China to Indonesia . Banjo fish from the east and north coasts of Australia were described as independent species in January 2017.
features
Banjo fish grow to be 8 to 12 inches long. Your body is high back and strongly flattened at the sides, the head profile is steep and almost straight. The gill cover is without a sting. The body color is gray-brown or olive. There are eight weak, dark longitudinal bands on the flanks. The unpaired fins have a white border, the soft-radiating part of the dorsal fin shows a black spot.
The dorsal fin is supported by ten spines and eleven soft rays. The anal fin has three fin spines and seven soft rays. The third spine of the dorsal fin and the second of the anal fin are particularly long and strongly developed. The pelvic fins start behind the base of the pectoral fin . The caudal fin is slightly indented. The lateral line organ is fully developed.
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. Wiley, New York 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matsunuma, M., & Motomura, H. (2017): Review of the genus Banjos (Perciformes: Banjosidae) with descriptions of two new species and a new subspecies. Ichthyological Research, 19 January 2017. DOI: 10.1007 / s10228-016-0569-9
Web links
- Family Banjosidae - Banjofishes on Fishbase.org (English)
- Banjo fish on Fishbase.org (English)