Selenotoca
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Dot stripe Argus fish ( Selenotoca multifasciata ), drawing from Introduction to the Study of Fishes by Albert Günther |
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Selenotoca is a genus of the Argus fish family(Scatophagidae). The two species of the genus occur in the coastal sea, in brackish water and in the lower reaches of rivers in the central, tropical Indo-Pacific .
features
Selenotoca species become 10 to 40 cm long. They have a strongly flattened body on the sides, which is patterned by spots and stripes. Selenotoca differs from Scatophagus , its sister genus in the family of the Argus fish, in that it has a more elongated body, as well as the almost complete separation of the hard-rayed and soft-rayed part of the dorsal fin and the long soft-rayed sections of the dorsal and anal fin that follow the body profile.
species
- Dot-stripe Argusfish ( Selenotoca multifasciata ) (Richardson, 1846), up to 40 cm long, Sulawesi , Indonesia , Western and Eastern Australia, and New Caledonia.
- Selenotoca papuensis Fraser-Brunner, 1938, 9 cm, Sulawesi and New Guinea.
The two species differ mainly in the width of the stripes and spots on the sides of the body (wider in Selenotoca papuensis ).
literature
- Günther Sterba : The world's freshwater fish. 2nd Edition. Urania, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-332-00109-4 , p. 671.
Web links
- Selenotoca on Fishbase.org (English)