Paraulopus
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Paraulopus nigripinnis |
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The Paraulopus ( Gr .: para = side of, aulos = flute) is a genus of lizard fish relatives (Aulopiformes). They occur in the Indian Ocean and in the western Pacific from Japan and the Hawaii-Emperor chain to Australia and New Zealand and live mainly on the shelf of the continents and islands at depths of 40 to 600 meters.
features
Paraulopus species are 8.5 to 35 centimeters long. Your dorsal fin is supported from ten to eleven, the anal fin from eight to eleven, the pectoral fins from 13 to 20 and the pelvic fins supported by nine rays . Paraulopus species have 40 to 52 pored scales along the fully developed lateral line organ and 39 to 46 vertebrae .
Systematics
The species of the genus were counted to the green eyes ( Chlorophthalmus ) until 2002 . The new genus Paraulopus and the family Paraulopidae were established on the basis of six apomorphies , in particular features of the gill arch , the ossification between the muscle segments ( bones ), the caudal fin skeleton and the pelvic girdle .
species
In the genus comprising eleven species, two groups of species can be distinguished: the Paraulopus oblongus group , which includes seven species that remain small, and the Paraulopus nigripinnis group, which includes three large, up to 35 centimeters long species that live near New Zealand and off the coast of the living southwestern Australia.
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Paraulopus nigripinnis group
- Paraulopus novaeseelandiae Sato & Nakabo, 2002
- Paraulopus nigripinnis ( Günther , 1878)
- Paraulopus okamurai Sato & Nakabo, 2002
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Paraulopus oblongus group
- Paraulopus atripes Sato & Nakabo, 2003
- Paraulopus brevirostris (Fourmanoir, 1981)
- Paraulopus filamentosus (Okamura, 1982)
- Paraulopus japonicus (Kamohara, 1956)
- Paraulopus legandi (Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979)
- Paraulopus maculatus (Kotthaus, 1967)
- Paraulopus melanogrammus Gomon & Sato, 2004
- Paraulopus oblongus (Kamohara, 1953)
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World , John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7
- Tomoyasu Sato & Tetsuji Nakabo: Paraulopidae and Paraulopus, a new family and genus of aulopiform fishes with revised relationships within the order. Ichthyological Research, Volume 49, Number 1 / February 2002, ISSN 1341-8998 , doi : 10.1007 / s102280200004
Web links
- Paraulopus on Fishbase.org (English)