Bandfish

This article is about a family of perch. For the glossy fish of the same name, see scythes (Trachipteridae).

Bandfish
Cepola macrophthalma
Systematics
Sub-cohort : Neoteleostei Acanthomorphata Spinefish (Acanthopterygii) Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae) Order : Priacanthiformes Family : Bandfish
Scientific name
Cepolidae
Rafinesque , 1815

The bandfish (Cepolidae) are a family of perch relatives (Percomorphaceae). The mostly red or pink fish live in the eastern Atlantic and Indo-Pacific over muddy and sandy bottoms.

features

Ribbon fish grow to be four to eight inches long and are usually reddish or pink in color. Their dorsal fin is continuous and has no or up to four fin spines, usually three. The anal fin has no or two fin spines. The jaws are covered with small teeth. Ploughshare and palatine bone are toothless. The number of Branchiostegal rays is six. The sideline runs just below the base of the dorsal fin.

All ribbon fish feed on zooplankton . They lay pelagic eggs.

Systematics

There are two subfamilies, three genera and 44 species:

• Subfamily Cepolinae , eel-like elongated and laterally strongly flattened bodies with a fin edge , which is formed from the fused dorsal, anal and caudal fins. Dorsal and anal fin with more than 51 rays . Dandruff tiny. 48 to 79 vertebrae.
  • Genus Acanthocepola
    

    Acanthocepola limbata
    • Acanthocepola abbreviata ( Valenciennes , 1835)
    • Acanthocepola indica ( Day , 1888)
    • Acanthocepola krusensternii ( Temminck & Schlegel , 1845)
    • Acanthocepola limbata ( Valenciennes , 1835)
  • Genus Cepola
    • Cepola australis Ogilby , 1899
    • Cepola haastii ( Hector , 1881)
    • Cepola macrophthalma ( Linnaeus , 1758)
    • Cepola pauciradiata Cadenat , 1950
    • Cepola schlegelii Bleeker , 1854
• Subfamily Owstoniinae , dorsal, anal and caudal fin separated. Dorsal and anal fin with less than 32 rays. Caudal fin long drawn out. 27 to 33 vertebrae. Life in deep water.
  • Genus Owstonia
    • Owstonia ainonaka Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
      

      Owstonia sibogae
    • Owstonia contodon Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia crassa Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia dispar Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia dorypterus ( Fowler , 1934)
    • Owstonia elongata Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia fallax Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia geminata Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia grammodon ( Fowler , 1934)
    • Owstonia hastata Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia hawaiiensis Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia ignota Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia kamoharai Endo , Liao & Matsuura , 2015
    • Owstonia lepiota Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia maccullochi Whitley , 1934
    • Owstonia macrophthalmus ( Fourmanoir , 1985)
    • Owstonia melanoptera Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia merensis Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia mundyi Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia nalani Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia nigromarginatus ( Fourmanoir , 1985)
    • Owstonia nudibucca Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia pectinifer ( Myers , 1939)
    • Owstonia psilos Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia raredonae Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia rhamma Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia sarmiento Liao , Reyes & Shao , 2009
    • Owstonia scottensis Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia sibogae ( Weber , 1913)
    • Owstonia similis Smith-Vaniz & Johnson , 2016
    • Owstonia simoterus ( Smith , 1968)
    • Owstonia taeniosoma ( Kamohara , 1935)
    • Owstonia tosaensis Kamohara , 1934
    • Owstonia totomiensis Tanaka , 1908
    • Owstonia weberi ( Gilchrist , 1922)

Way of life

The ribbon fish of the subfamily Cepolinae live solitary or in small groups, similar to tube eels and jaw fish in self-dug tubes in the sea floor. The tubes are mainly built in muddy soils covered by mussel gravel or gravel. Bandfish feed on small, planktonic crustaceans , Bentisch invertebrates are not eaten.

Since they mainly live below the water depths frequented by divers, ribbon fish are rarely seen. However, they are common in many areas, are fished commercially and offered on markets.

literature

• Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World , John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7
• Hans A. Baensch / Robert A. Patzner: Mergus Sea Water Atlas Volume 7 Perciformes (perch-like) , Mergus-Verlag, Melle, 1998, ISBN 3-88244-107-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Smith-Vaniz, WF & Johnson, GD (2016): Hidden diversity in deep-water bandfishes: review of Owstonia with descriptions of twenty-one new species (Teleostei: Cepolidae: Owstoniinae) . Zootaxa , 4187 (1): 1-103. doi: 10.11646 / zootaxa.4187.1.1

Web links

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

• Ribbon fish on Fishbase.org (English)