Helcogramma

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Helcogramma
Different Helcogramma species.  From top to bottom: H. fuscipectoris, H. inclinata, H. rhinoceros, H. striata, H. trigloides

Different types of Helcogramma . From top to bottom: H. fuscipectoris, H. inclinata, H. rhinoceros, H. striata, H. trigloides

Systematics
Spinefish (Acanthopterygii)
Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae)
Ovalentaria
Order : Blennioidei (Blenniiformes)
Family : Three-fin slime fish (Tripterygiidae)
Genre : Helcogramma
Scientific name
Helcogramma
McCulloch & Waite , 1918

Helcogramma is a genus of small marine fish from the family of three-fin slime fish(Tripterygiidae). All species of this genus occur in the western Pacific , the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea . Like all three-fin slime fish, they are bottom-dwelling, very hidden fish.

features

Diagnostic features with which the genus Helcogramma can be distinguished from other genera of the three-fin slime fish are the continuous side line that begins above the gill cover and then runs in an arc downwards along the middle of the body. It consists of 7 to 39 scales with tubular pores. Other characteristics of Helcogramma are the scaly head, a scaly stripe at the base of the dorsal and anal fin, three spiked rays in the first dorsal fin and one in the anal fin and ventral fins, which are supported by a spine and two soft rays. There are five hypuralia in the caudal fin skeleton .

species

The genus Helcogramma includes over 40 species. After Enneapterygius, it is the second most species-rich genus of the three-fin slime fish.

Helcogramma striata on the hard coral Diploastrea heliopora

Individual evidence

  1. Lieske, Ewald., Myers, Robert F .: Coral reef guide Red Sea: for divers, snorkelers and aquarists. Verlag Kosmos, Stuttgart, ISBN 9783440125656
  2. a b Ronald Fricke, Mark V. Erdmann: Helcogramma atauroensis, a new species of triplefin from Ataúro Island, Timor-Leste, eastern Indian Ocean (Teleostei: Tripterygiidae) , Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 26, 34–45 (2017 ), urn: lsid: zoobank.org: pub: 612DE10C-E89B-4C08-ADF9-598BC068B0AF doi: 10.5281 / zenodo.377034 , page 35.
  3. Helcogramma on Fishbase.org (English)

Web links

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