Sweet lips
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Harlequin sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides ) |
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Sweetlips (Plectorhinchinae) are a subfamily of the Haemulidae from the order of the grunts and snapper (Lutjaniformes). They live in the Indian Ocean , the western Pacific and the eastern Atlantic .
features
They are relatively large, 35 centimeters to over a meter long fish, with large heads and large, bulging lips. Their teeth are small and conical, pharynx teeth are present. The caudal fin is only slightly notched or rounded. Sweetlips are often conspicuously colored with white and yellow base and fin colors and yellow and black vertical stripes and spots. The young fish are colored completely differently in many species.
The sister group of the sweetlips are the grunts (Haemulinae), from which they differ by a longer dorsal fin , with 17 to 26 fin rays in the soft-rayed part.
Way of life
They swim with characteristic snaking movements, are nocturnal and are inactive under overhangs during the day. At night they go in search of their food consisting of bottom-dwelling invertebrates .
Genera and species
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Diagram Oken, 1817
- Diagrama melanacrum Johnson & Randall in Johnson, Randall & Chenoweth, 2001
- Silver Sweetlippe ( Diagrama pictum ) (Thunberg, 1792)
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Parapristipoma Bleeker, 1873
- Parapristipoma humile (Bowdich, 1825)
- Parapristipoma macrops (Pellegrin, 1912)
- Parapristipoma octolineatum (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1833)
- Parapristipoma trilineatum (Thunberg, 1793)
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Plectorhinchus Lacepède, 1801
- Giant sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus albovittatus ) (Rüppell, 1838)
- Celebes Sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus celebicus ) Bleeker, 1873
- Plectorhinchus ceylonensis (Smith, 1956)
- Harlequin sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides ) Lacepède, 1801
- Plectorhinchus chrysotaenia (Bleeker, 1855)
- Bronze sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus chubbi ) (Regan, 1919)
- Sickle sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus cinctus ) (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
- Plectorhinchus diagrammus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Orange-spotted sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus flavomaculatus ) (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830)
- Black-spotted sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus gaterinus ) (Forsskål, 1775)
- Gibbus sweetlippe ( Plectorhinchus gibbosus ) (Lacepède, 1802)
- Plectorhinchus goldmanni (Bleeker, 1853)
- Plectorhinchus harrawayi (Smith, 1952)
- Phantom sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus lessonii ) (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830)
- Diagonal sweetlippe ( Plectorhinchus lineatus ) (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Plectorhinchus macrolepis (Boulenger, 1899)
- Plectorhinchus macrospilus Satapoomin & Randall, 2000
- Plectorhinchus mediterraneus (Guichenot, 1850)
- Gold-spotted sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus multivittatus ) (Macleay, 1878)
- Giant sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus obscurus ) (Günther, 1872)
- Plectorhinchus paulayi Steindachner, 1895
- Black and white sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus pictus ) (Tortonese, 1936)
- Plectorhinchus picus (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830)
- Yellow-mouthed sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus plagiodesmus ) Fowler, 1935
- White- banded sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus playfairi ) (Pellegrin, 1914)
- Golden stripe sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus polytaenia ) (Bleeker, 1852)
- Schotaf's sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus schotaf ) (Forsskål, 1775)
- Black sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus sordidus ) (Klunzinger, 1870)
- Plectorhinchus umbrinus (Klunzinger, 1870)
- Plectorhinchus unicolor (Macleay, 1883)
- Oriental sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus vittatus ) (Linnaeus, 1758)
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
- Ewald Lieske, Robert F. Myers: Coral fish of the world . Year Top Special Verlag Hamburg, ISBN 3-86132-112-2
Web links
- Sweetlips on Fishbase.org (English)