Brotulotaenia
| Brotulotaenia | ||||||||||||
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| Brotulotaeniinae | ||||||||||||
| Cohen & Nielsen, 1978 | ||||||||||||
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| Brotulotaenia | ||||||||||||
| Parr , 1933 |
Brotulotaenia is a genus of marine fish from the male bearded family(Ophidiidae). It occurs worldwide in tropical and subtropical oceans.
features
Brotulotaenia species are elongated fish in which the dorsal, caudal and anal fins are connected to form a fin edge. Ventral fins are missing. The fish reach maximum lengths of 30 to 86 cm. Her body is covered with small, pimply and irregularly arranged scales. The gill cover is without spines. Barbels are absent. The otoliths are very small and round. The middle tooth plates on the basibranchial (bones at the base of the branchial arch ) are missing. The gill rakes are reduced to tooth-bearing tubercles. The number of precaudal vertebrae (vertebrae in the abdomen ) is 12 to 15.
Way of life
Brotulotaenia species live meso to bathypelagic , probably also close to the sea floor.
species
There are four types:
- Brotulotaenia brevicauda Cohen, 1974.
- Brotulotaenia crassa Parr, 1934.
- Brotulotaenia nielseni (Cohen, 1974).
- Brotulotaenia nigra Parr, 1933. ( type species )
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World . John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
- Nielsen, JG; Cohen, DM; Markle, DF; Robins, CR: Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalog of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date. Pages 25-26, FAO Fisheries Synopsis. No. 125, vol. 18. Rome, FAO. 1999. PDF
Web links
- Brotulotaenia on Fishbase.org (English)