Snipe fish

Snipe fish
Common snipefish ( Macroramphosus scolopax )
Systematics
Sub-cohort : Neoteleostei Acanthomorphata Spinefish (Acanthopterygii) Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae) Order : Pipefish (Syngnathiformes) Family : Snipe fish
Scientific name
Centriscidae
Rafinesque , 1810

The snipe fish (Centriscidae) are a family of the pipefish (Syngnathiformes).

distribution

The animals live worldwide in temperate and subtropical seas, sometimes at depths of up to 1000 meters. The genera Centriscops and Notopogon occur only in the southern hemisphere. The common snipe fish ( Macroramphosus scolopax ) also lives on the coasts of Western Europe and in the Mediterranean . The four species of the subfamily of the snipe knifefish (Centriscinae) live in the flat regions of the tropical Indo-Pacific.

features

They are laterally flattened, narrow fish with long, tubular pipette snouts and terminal, toothless mouths. The different species reach lengths between 15 and 33 cm. Your first five or six vertebrae are elongated. The small pelvic fins have a fin spine and four soft rays.

Internal system

Centriscops humerosus

Macroramphosus scolopax

A shoal of the striped snipe fish ( Aeoliscus strigatus ) off Cebu

Five genera in two subfamilies with a total of twelve species are recognized as valid :

• Subfamily of bellows fish (Macroramphosinae)
  • Genus Centriscops Gill, 1862
    • Banded bellowfish ( Centriscops humerosus (Richardson, 1846) )
  • Genus Macroramphosus Lacepède, 1803
    • Slender snipefish ( Macroramphosus gracilis (Lowe, 1839) )
    • Common snipefish ( Macroramphosus scolopax (Linnaeus, 1758) )
  • Genus Notopogon Regan , 1914
    • Notopogon armatus (Sauvage, 1879)
    • Notopogon fernandezianus (Delfin, 1899)
    • Crown bellows fish ( Notopogon lilliei Regan, 1914 )
    • Notopogon macrosolen Barnard, 1925
    • Orange bellowfish ( Notopogon xenosoma Regan, 1914 )
• Subfamily Schnepfenmesserfische (Centriscinae)
  • Genus Aeoliscus Jordan & Starks, 1902
    • Spotted snipe knifefish ( Aeoliscus punctulatus (Bianconi, 1855) )
    • Striped snipe knife fish ( Aeoliscus strigatus (Günther, 1861) )
  • Genus Centriscus Linnaeus, 1758
    • Centriscus cristatus (De Vis, 1885)
    • Centriscus scutatus Linnaeus, 1758

literature

• Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7
• Rudie H. Kuiter : Seahorses, pipefish, shredded fish and their relatives. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3244-3

Web links

Commons : Snipefish  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Snipe fish on Fishbase.org (English)