Knife lipfish
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Novaculichthys taeniourus |
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| Bleeker , 1862 |
The knife wrasse (Novaculini) or sand wrasse are a tribe of fish that belongs to the perch relatives . They differ from their more pointed-headed relatives by their steep head profile. Your sideline is broken.
The fish live in seagrass meadows and on sandy soils in the tropical Indo-Pacific and the Atlantic . As they flee, they quickly dig themselves into the sand. Many young knife wrasse look like a leaf ( mimicry ) and float motionless in the current.
Systematics
The knife lipfish are the sister group of the cigar wrasse ( Cheilio inermis ), the clade formed by both is the sister group of the junker wrasse (Julidinae).
Genera and species
- Genus Cymolutes Günther, 1861
- Cymolutes lecluse (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
- Cymolutes praetextatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Cymolutes torquatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Genus Iniistius Gill, 1862
- Iniistius aneitensis (Günther, 1862)
- Iniistius auropunctatus Randall, Earle & Robertson, 2002
- Iniistius baldwini (Jordan & Evermann, 1903)
- Iniistius brevipinnis Randall, 2013
- Iniistius celebicus (Bleeker, 1856)
- Iniistius griffithsi Randall, 2007
- Iniistius opalus Fukui, 2018
- Iniistius pavo Valenciennes, 1840
- Iniistius umbrilatus (Jenkins, 1901)
- Genus Novaculichthys Bleeker, 1862
- Novaculichthys macrolepidotus (Bloch, 1791)
- Novaculichthys taeniourus (Lacépède, 1801)
- Genus Novaculops Schultz in Schultz, Chapman, Lachner & Woods, 1960
- Novaculops alvheimi Randall, 2013
- Novaculops halsteadi
- Novaculops koteamea Randall & Allen, 2004
- Novaculops pastellus Randall &, Earle & Rocha, 2008
- Novaculops sciistius Jordan & Thompson, 1914
- Novaculops woodi (Jenkins, 1901)
- Genus Xyrichtys Cuvier, 1814
- Xyrichtys bimaculatus Rüppell, 1829
- Xyrichtys blanchardi (Cadenat & Marchal, 1963)
- Xyrichtys cyanifrons Valenciennes, 1840
- Xyrichtys dea Temminck & Schlegel, 1845
- Xyrichty's geisha Araga & Yoshino, 1986
- Xyrichtys incandescens Edwards & Lubbock, 1981
- Xyrichtys jacksonensis (Ramsay, 1881)
- Xyrichtys javanicus (Bleeker, 1862)
- Xyrichtys koteamea Randall & Allen, 2004
- Xyrichtys martinicensis Valenciennes, 1840
- Xyrichtys melanopus (Bleeker, 1857)
- Xyrichtys mundiceps Gill, 1862
- Xyrichtys niger (Steindachner, 1900)
- Xyrichtys novacula ( Linnaeus , 1758)
- Xyrichtys pastellus Randall, Earle & Rocha, 2008
- Xyrichtys pentadactylus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Xyrichtys rajagopalani Venkataramanujam, Venkataramani & Ramanathan, 1987
- Xyrichtys sanctaehelenae (Günther, 1868)
- Xyrichtys splendens Castelnau, 1855
- Xyrichtys trivittatus Randall & Cornish, 2000
- Xyrichtys twistii (Bleeker, 1856)
- Xyrichtys verrens (Jordan & Evermann, 1902)
- Xyrichtys victori Wellington, 1992
- Xyrichtys virens Valenciennes, 1840
- Xyrichtys wellingtoni Allen & Robertson, 1995
literature
- E. Lieske, RF Myers: Coral fish of the world . Year publisher, 1994, ISBN 3-86132-112-2 .