Sea bats

Sea bats
Ogcocephalus parvus
Systematics
Acanthomorphata Spinefish (Acanthopterygii) Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae) Order : Armfinch (Lophiiformes) Subordination : Ogcocephalioidei Family : Sea bats
Scientific name
Ogcocephalidae
Jordan , 1895

The sea ​​bats (Ogcocephalidae) are bottom-dwelling fish from the order of the armfin fish (Lophiiformes).

distribution

Sea bats live worldwide, with the exception of the Mediterranean , in subtropical and tropical seas, on the bottom, mostly at greater depths of 100 meters. Only the genus Ogcocephalus , native to the Caribbean , the western Atlantic and around the Galápagos Islands, prefers shallower water.

features

The large-headed, often brightly colored, red and orange colored and 5 to 30 cm long fishes have a strangely flattened (exception is the genus Coelophrys ), triangular or round, partly protected by spiny bone plates. Only the first ray remains of the dorsal fin, which has been transformed into the rod typical of the armfinch (Lophiiformes). In some species it is also located on a horn-like appendage at the front of the head (hence the name Ogcocephalus from (old Greek) ogkos (Latinized oncus , " swell ") and cephale "head").

Systematics

Phylogenetic systematics of the Ogcocephalidae according to Derouena et al. 2014:
Ogcocephalidae    Ogcocephalus      Halieutichthys      Zalieutes      Halicmetus      Dibranchus      Halieutopsis      Coelophrys      Solocisquama      Malthopsis      Halieutaea

Dibranchus atlanticus

Halieutaea coccinea

Halieutichthys aculeatus

Malthopsis lutea

Ogcocephalus corniger

Ogcocephalus pumilus

Zalieutes mcgintyi

There are over 70 species in ten genera:

• Coelophrys
  • Coelophrys arca (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) .
  • Coelophrys bradburyae (Endo & Shinohara, 1999) .
  • Coelophrys brevicaudata ( Brewer , 1902) .
  • Coelophrys brevipes (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) .
  • Coelophrys mollis (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) .
  • Coelophrys oblonga (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) .
• Dibranchus
  • Dibranchus accinctus (Bradbury, 1999) .
  • Dibranchus atlanticus ( Peters , 1876) .
  • Dibranchus cracens (Bradbury, McCosker & Long, 1999) .
  • Dibranchus discors (Bradbury, McCosker & Long, 1999) .
  • Dibranchus erinaceus ( Garman , 1899) .
  • Dibranchus hystrix (Garman, 1899) .
  • Dibranchus japonicus (Amaoka & Toyoshima, 1981) .
  • Dibranchus nasutus ( Cuvier , 1829) .
  • Dibranchus nudivomer (Garman, 1899) .
  • Dibranchus sparsus (Garman, 1899) .
  • Dibranchus spinosus (Garman, 1899) .
  • Dibranchus spongiosa (Gilbert, 1890) .
  • Dibranchus tremendus (Bradbury, 1999) .
  • Dibranchus velutinus (Bradbury, 1999) .
• Halicmetus Alcock, 1891 .
  • Halicmetus drypus Ho & Last, 2018 .
  • Halicmetus marmoratus Weber, 1913 .
  • Halicmetus niger Ho, Endo & Sakamaki, 2008 .
  • Halicmetus reticulatus (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) .
  • Halicmetus ruber (Alcock, 1891) .
  • Halicmetus westraliensis Ho & Last, 2018 .
• Halieutaea
  • Halieutaea brevicauda ( Ogilby , 1910) .
  • Halieutaea coccinea (Alcock, 1889) .
  • Halieutaea fitzsimonsi (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916) .
  • Halieutaea fumosa (Alcock, 1894) .
  • Halieutaea hancocki ( Regan , 1908) .
  • Halieutaea indica (Annandale & Jenkins, 1910) .
  • Halieutaea nigra (Alcock, 1891) .
  • Halieutaea retifera (Gilbert, 1905) .
  • Halieutaea stellata ( Swainson , 1839) .
• Halieutichthys
  • Halieutichthys aculeatus (Mitchill, 1818) .
  • Halieutichthys bispinosus (Ho, Chakrabarty & Sparks, 2010) .
  • Halieutichthys intermedius (Ho, Chakrabarty & Sparks, 2010) .
• Halieutopsis
  • Halieutopsis andriashevi (Bradbury, 1988) .
  • Halieutopsis bathyoreos (Bradbury, 1988) .
  • Halieutopsis galatea (Bradbury, 1988) .
  • Halieutopsis ingerorum (Bradbury, 1988) .
  • Halieutopsis margaretae (Ho & Shao, 2007) .
  • Halieutopsis micropa (Alcock, 1891) .
  • Halieutopsis simula (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) .
  • Halieutopsis stellifera (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) .
  • Halieutopsis tumifrons (Garman, 1899) .
  • Halieutopsis vermicularis (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) .
• Malthopsis
  • Malthopsis annulifera (Tanaka, 1908) .
  • Malthopsis asperata Ho et al., 2013 .
  • Malthopsis austrafricana Ho, 2013 .
  • Malthopsis bradburyae Ho, 2013 .
  • Malthopsis gnoma (Bradbury, 1998) .
  • Malthopsis jordani (Gilbert, 1905) .
  • Malthopsis lutea (Alcock, 1891) .
  • Malthopsis mitrigera (Gilbert & Cramer, 1897) .
  • Malthopsis parva Ho et al., 2013 .
  • Malthopsis tiarella ( Jordan , 1902) .
• Ogcocephalus
  • Ogcocephalus corniger (Bradbury, 1980) .
  • Ogcocephalus cubifrons ( Richardson , 1836) .
  • Ogcocephalus darwini (Hubbs, 1958) .
  • Ogcocephalus declivirostris (Bradbury, 1980) .
  • Ogcocephalus nasutus (Cuvier, 1829) .
  • Ogcocephalus notatus ( Valenciennes , 1837) .
  • Ogcocephalus pantostictus (Bradbury, 1980) .
  • Ogcocephalus parvus (Longley & Hildebrand, 1940) .
  • Ogcocephalus porrectus (Garman, 1899) .
  • Ogcocephalus pumilus (Bradbury, 1980) .
  • Ogcocephalus radiatus (Mitchill, 1818) .
  • Ogcocephalus rostellum (Bradbury, 1980) .
  • Ogcocephalus vespertilio ( Linnaeus , 1758) .
• Solocisquama
  • Solocisquama carinata (Bradbury, 1999) .
  • Solocisquama erythrina (Gilbert, 1905) .
  • Solocisquama stellulata (Gilbert, 1905) .
• Zalieutes
  • Zalieutes elater (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) .
  • Zalieutes mcgintyi (Fowler, 1952) .

literature

• Kurt Fiedler, Textbook of Special Zoology, Volume II, Part 2: Fish , Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena, 1991, ISBN 3-334-00339-6
• 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 6 , Mergus-Verlag, Melle, ISBN 3-88244-116-X

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Valerie Derouena, William B. Ludta, Hsuan-Ching Hob, Prosanta Chakrabarty: Examining evolutionary relationships and shifts in depth preferences in batfishes (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, December 2014, doi: 10.1016 / j.ympev.2014.12.011
2. ↑ Species of Family Ogcocephalidae Fishbase
3. ^ Hsuan-Ching Ho and Peter R. Last. 2018. Review of the Batfish Genus Halicmetus Alcock, 1891 from Australian Waters, with Descriptions of Two New Species (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae). Zootaxa. 4508 (2); 179-196. DOI: 10.11646 / zootaxa.4508.2.2

Web links

Commons : Sea Bats  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Theodore W. Pietsch: Ogcocephalidae The Tree of Life Web Project
• Sea bats on Fishbase.org (English)