Pearlfish
| Pearlfish | ||||||||||||
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Glaucosoma magnificum |
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| Glaucosomatidae | ||||||||||||
| Jordan , 1923 | ||||||||||||
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| Glaucosoma | ||||||||||||
| Temminck & Schlegel , 1843 |
The pearl perch ( Glaucosoma ) are a genus of perch relatives (Percomorphaceae). They are monotypical in the family Glaucosomatidae. Pearlfish live in the Indo-Pacific in a relatively narrow area that stretches from Japan to Australia .
features
Pearlfish have an oval, laterally flattened, high-backed body with a large head, large eyes and a large, sloping mouth. The mouth can be pushed forward and has dense rows of small teeth and some protruding fangs. Your dorsal fin has eight hard rays and 11 to 14 soft rays. The anal fin has three hard and twelve soft rays. Some rays of the dorsal, anal and caudal fin can be elongated like threads. Perch are 30 centimeters to 1.2 meters long, have a continuous lateral line organ and 25 vertebrae.
Systematics
With their closest relatives, the glass or hatchet fish (Pempheridae), and other families, the pearlfish form the newly established order Pempheriformes in the latest revision of the bony fish system .
species
- Glaucosoma buergeri Richardson, 1845
- Glaucosoma hebraicum Richardson, 1845
- Glaucosoma magnificum (Ogilby, 1915)
- Glaucosoma scapulare Ramsay, 1881
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World , John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
- Hans A. Baensch / Robert A. Patzner: Mergus Sea Water Atlas Volume 7 Perciformes (perch-like) , Mergus-Verlag, Melle, 1998, ISBN 3-88244-107-0 .
- Roland J. McKay: Pearl perches of the world (Family Glaucosomatidae). An annotated and illustrated catalog of the pearl perches known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis. No. 125, Vol. 17. FAO Rome 1997. ( PDF )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ricardo Betancur-R., Richard E. Broughton, Edward O. Wiley, Kent Carpenter, J. Andrés López, Chenhong Li, Nancy I. Holcroft, Dahiana Arcila, Millicent Sanciangco, James C Cureton II, Feifei Zhang, Thaddaeus Buser, Matthew A. Campbell, Jesus A Ballesteros, Adela Roa-Varon, Stuart Willis, W. Calvin Borden, Thaine Rowley, Paulette C. Reneau, Daniel J. Hough, Guoqing Lu, Terry Grande, Gloria Arratia, Guillermo Ortí: The Tree of Life and a New Classification of Bony Fishes. PLOS Currents Tree of Life. 2013 Apr 18, Edition 1. doi: 10.1371 / currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288 , PDF ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ DeepFin.org: New and Revised Classification for Bony Fishes based on Molecular Data - version 2 ( Memento of the original dated December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (November 27, 2013)
Web links
- Pearlfish on Fishbase.org (English)