Garibaldi fish
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Garibaldi fish ( Hypsypops rubicundus ) |
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The Garibaldi fish ( Hypsypops rubicundus ) is the largest species of damselfish (Pomacentridae). He is the only kind of genre Hypsypops and is in the United States under conservation . Its closest relative is the genus Parma from the southwestern Pacific.
distribution
Garibaldi fish live in the cool waters of the kelp forests and on the rocky coasts of the eastern Pacific from Monterey to Baja California and the island of Guadalupe at depths of up to 30 meters.
Appearance
They are high-backed, bright orange colored animals. They become about 30 centimeters long. The juvenile fish are not that high back yet and are spotted blue with a light red basic color.
Names
The Garibaldi is named after the Italian freedom fighter Garibaldi and his " red shirts " from 1860.
Hypsypops is a made-up word with a strange quality (created by Theodore Nicholas Gill in 1861), composed of the Greek hyps- "high", [h] yp [o] "under" and ops "eye" ( hypopion "cheek", "face") , meaning "(fish) with high cheeks". Latin rubicundus means "bright red, crimson".
literature
- Gerald R. Allen : Damselfish of the World . Mergus Verlag, Melle 1991, ISBN 3-88244-007-4
Web links
- Garibaldi on Fishbase.org (English)
- Hypsypops rubicundus in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Allen, G., Robertson, R. & Lea, B., 2007. Retrieved January 12, 2014.