Stellifer

Stellifer
Stellifer lanceolatus
Systematics
Acanthomorphata Spinefish (Acanthopterygii) Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae) incertae sedis Family : Umberfish (Sciaenidae) Genre : Stellifer
Scientific name
Stellifer
Oken , 1817

Stellifer ( Latin for "star bearer") is a genus fromthe Umberfish family (Sciaenidae). It occurs with 24 species in the West Pacific and East Atlantic .

features

Stelliferous are elongated fish with a more or less flattened body. The head is wide, partly translucent due to the spongy perforated bones of the sensory canal - it still feels hard because you can feel the solid edges of the sensory canal grooves when you touch it (for example on the market) ("hardheads"). The mouth is medium-sized and horizontal or with drooping angles. The chin has no barbels . The eye is small to medium in size. The front cover is sawn on the edge and usually has one or more distinct spines on the rear edge. The thorns of the gill trap are long and thin. The dorsal fin is almost completely divided by a deep notch between the front, hard-rayed and the rear, soft-rayed part. The anal fin has two hard rays, the second of which is long, and 8 to 13 soft rays.

There are two pairs of large otoliths in the inner ear . The swim bladder is divided into two parts, with two appendages on the front part, variable between the species, while the rear part is carrot-shaped.

species

The genus includes 24 species:

• Stellifer brasiliensis
• Stellifer chaoi
• Stellifer chrysoleuca
• Stellifer colonensis
• Stellifer ephelis
• Stellifer ericymba
• Stellifer Fuerthii
• Stellifer griseus
• Stellifer individuellecebrosus
• Stellifer lanceolatus
• Stellifer Magoi
• Stellifer mancorensis
• Stellifer melanocheir
• Stellifer microps
• Stellifer minor
• Stellifer Naso
• Stellifer oscitans
• Stellifer pizarroensis
• Stellifer rastrifer
• Stellifer stellifer
• Stellifer Venezuelae
• Stellifer Walkeri
• Stellifer wintersteenorum
• Stellifer zestocarus

swell

• Stellifer. at: www.discoverlife.org
• LN Chao: Sciaenidae . In: KE Carpenter (Ed.): The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists . tape 5 , no. 3 . FAO, Rome 2002, p. 1583–1653 ( online [PDF]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stellifer on Fishbase.org (English)