Marble fish
| Marble fish | ||||||||||||
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Aplodactylus punctatus |
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| Aplodactylidae | ||||||||||||
| Bleeker , 1859 | ||||||||||||
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| Aplodactylus | ||||||||||||
| Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1832 |
The marble fish ( Aplodactylus ; Greek haploos = individually daktylos = finger), also sea carp called, are a genus of medium-sized fish from the subordination of the tufts Percoidei (Cirrhitioidei), in sub-tropical regions of the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Australia , New Zealand , Peru and Chile live . The fish are bottom dwellers and are relatively rare.
features
Marble fish grow to be 35 to 65 centimeters long. Your first dorsal fin is supported by 14 to 23 hard fin rays. It gets lower and lower from front to back. The soft-rayed second dorsal fin is supported by 16 to 21 fin rays, the anal fin has only six to eight soft rays. Marble fish have heterodontic teeth that contain lanceolate, single-pointed, and three-pointed teeth. The ploughshare (vomer) is also toothed.
species
There are five types:
- Aplodactylus arctidens Richardson , 1839.
- Aplodactylus etheridgii ( Ogilby , 1889).
- Aplodactylus lophodon ( Günther , 1859).
- Aplodactylus punctatus Valenciennes , 1832.
- Aplodactylus westralis Russell, 1987.
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. Wiley, New York 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
Web links
- Marble fish on Fishbase.org (English)