Embiotoca lateralis
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Embiotoca lateralis is a fish from the family of surf perch (Embiotocidae). It lives on the rocky coasts and the kelp forests of the northeastern Pacific from Wrangell Island on the Alaskan coastto northern Baja California at depths of up to 20 meters.
The fish become 38 cm long and can reach an age of 10 years. They are copper-colored, the flanks are patterned by 15 narrow, blue stripes, which run above the sideline organ like an arch, parallel to the sideline, and below the sideline straight and horizontally.
There are some blue dots and stripes on the head and gill cover . The upper lip is often dark. The fins are also copper-colored, the base of the dorsal fin, the caudal fin and the rear part of the pelvic fins are darker. The rays of the hard-rayed part of the dorsal fin are always shorter than those of the soft-rayed part.
Embiotoca lateralis feeds on crustaceans , worms, mussels and, when the herring spawns , on their eggs.
literature
- Eschmeyer, Herald, Hamann: Pacific Coast Fishes , Peterson Field Guides, ISBN 0-395-33188-9
Web links
- Embiotoca lateralis on Fishbase.org (English)