Giant bass

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Giant bass
Barramundi (Lates calcarifer)

Barramundi ( Lates calcarifer )

Systematics
Spinefish (Acanthopterygii)
Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae)
Carangaria
Order : Carangiformes
Family : Giant bass
Scientific name
Latidae
Jordan , 1888

The family of the giant perch (Latidae) are voracious predatory fish, which are also of considerable importance for the fishing industry, and belong to the order of the Carangiformes .

features

Giant perches are 45 centimeters to two meters long. You have 25 vertebrae . The top of the head is depressed in a concave dorsal direction. In many species, the two dorsal fins are not completely divided, or between the first, hard-edged dorsal fin and the second, soft-edged dorsal fin, there are individual isolated rays without a membrane.

distribution

Seven species of the genus Lates live in Africa in fresh and brackish water , of which four species endemic to Lake Tanganyika and one each in Lake Albert and Lake Turkana . Lates calcarifer occurs in fresh water, brackish water and in the sea on the coast of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific from the Persian Gulf to Japan and Australia . Lates japonicus lives in and near Japan in rivers and in the sea. Psammoperca waigiensis lives in brackish water and in the sea from the Bay of Bengal to Japan, the Philippines and Australia, Hypopterus macropterus only occurs on the coast of western Australia.

Fossil record

Fossils of the extinct genus Eolates from the Oligocene and the Eocene were found in Africa and also in Europe, in the northern Italian Monte Bolca Formation, which arose from Tethys deposits .

Systematics

There are three recent genera, one of which is monotypical , with 14 species. In addition, there is the extinct genus Eolates with three species.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Albert Frickhinger: Fossil Atlas Fish , Mergus-Verlag, Melle, 1999, ISBN 3-88244-018-X
  2. a b Iwatsuki, Y., Newman, SJ, Tanaka, F. & Russell, BC (2018): Validity of Psammoperca datnioides Richardson 1848 and redescriptions of P. waigiensis Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828 and Hypopterus macropterus (Günther 1859) in the family Latidae (Perciformes) from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa , 4402 (3): 467-486, doi: 10.11646 / zootaxa.4402.3.3

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