Branchiostegus

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Branchiostegus
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Branchiostegus japonicus
Branchiostegus wardi JNC2997 Body.JPG
Ward's Tilefish (B. wardi)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Malacanthidae
Subfamily: Latilinae
Genus: Branchiostegus
Rafinesque, 1815 [1]
Type species
Coryphaenoides hottuynii
Lacépède, 1801 [2]
Synonyms [2]

Branchiostegus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, tilefishes belonging to the family Malacanthidae. They are found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean through the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific Ocean. [3] Here they create burrows in soft substrates in the comparatively deep waters of the continental shelf and slope. [4]

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Characteristics

Branchiostegus tilefishes have a rectangular body shape with a square profile to the head. They have a raised seam situated to the anterior of the dorsal fin, this can be reduced but it is always there. They have a body which is around four times as long as it is deep. There are fine serrations on the preopercular upper arm while its lower arm has very few or no serrations and there is no spine at its angle. The operculum has a single flexible, blunt spine. The mouth is slightly angled and extend to the front of the eye. The dorsal and anal fins are long and unbroken. The dorsal fin has 6 to 8 spines, typically 7 and 14 to 16, normally 15, soft rays. The anal fin contains 2 spines and 11 to 13, typically 12, soft rays. The caudal fin is rounded, truncate, or double emarginate and sometimes has elongated tips. They have pelagic larvae which have many spines on their heads and serrated ridges. [5]

Species

There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: [3]

Systematics

Branchiostegus was created by the French naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783-1840) in 1815, with Lacépède's Coryphaenoides hottuynii (now recognised as a synonym of Branchiostegus japonicus) as its type species. [2] The genus name is a compound of branchios meaning "gill" and stegos meaning "cover". Rafinesque put this name forward without explanation but he placed the genus in a subfamily of Lophionota, an unavailable name for a grouping which approximates to the currently recognised Coryphaenidae, in which he put dolphinfishes, sailfishes and many other marine fishes and which were distinguished by the possession of branchiostegal membranes. [1] The genus is currently placed in the subfamily Latilinae. [8]

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<i>Caulolatilus hubbsi</i> Species of fish

Caulolatilus hubbsi, the Hubbs's tilefish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a tilefish belonging to the family Malacanthidae. It occurs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Its specific name honours the American ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs (1894-1979). Studies have shown that this taxon is not readily distinguishable from Caulolatilus princeps and should be treated as a junior synonym of C. princeps.

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Branchiostegus paxtoni, or Paxton's tilefish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a tilefish belonging to the family Malacanthidae. It is found in the Eastern Indian Ocean and is known only from a locality 190 km northwest of Port Hedland, Western Australia. This species reaches a length of 25.5 cm (10.0 in).

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<i>Branchiostegus wardi</i> Species of fish

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Branchiostegus argentatus is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a tilefish belonging to the family Malacanthidae. It is from the East and South China seas. This species reaches a length of 27.3 cm (10.7 in).

Branchiostegus doliatus, the ribbed tilefish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a tilefish belonging to the family Malacanthidae. It is found in the Western Indian Ocean: including Maputo, from Mozambique to Durban, South Africa; and also in Mauritius and Reunion islands; and off Madagascar. This species reaches a length of 40.0 cm (15.7 in).

Branchiostegus semifasciatus is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a tilefish belonging to the family Malacanthidae. It is from the Eastern Atlantic, from Casablanca, Morocco to Baia dos Tigres, Angola. They are spotted rarely north of Dakar, Senegal. This species reaches a length of 60 cm (24 in).

Branchiostegus biendong is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a tilefish belonging to the family Malacanthidae. It is found in Vietnam.

Branchiostegus okinawaensis is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a tilefish belonging to the family Malacanthidae. It is found in Okinawa.

Inegocia japonica, the Japanese flathead, rusty flathead or smooth flathead, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Platycephalidae, the flatheads. It is found in the Indo-West Pacific region.

References

  1. 1 2 Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (18 September 2020). "Series EUPERCARIA (Incertae sedis): Families CALLANTHIIDAE, CENTROGENYIDAE, DINOLESTIDAE, DINOPERCIDAE, EMMELICHTHYIDAE, MALACANTHIDAE, MONODACTYLIDAE, MORONIDAE, PARASCORPIDIDAE, SCIAENIDAE and SILLAGINIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Malacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Branchiostegus in FishBase . December 2013 version.
  4. ↑ Dianne J. Bray. "Branchiostegus". Fishes of Australia. Museums Victoria. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  5. ↑ J.K. Dooley. "Branchiostegidae" (PDF). FAO. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  6. ↑ Wataru Hiramatsu; Chu Tien Vinh; Hiromitsu Endo (2019). "Branchiostegus biendong, a New Tilefish from Vietnam (Perciformes: Branchiostegidae)". Zootaxa. 4661 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4661.1.6.
  7. ↑ Wataru Hiramatsu; Tetsuo Yoshino (2012). "A New Tilefish, Branchiostegus okinawaensis (Perciformes:Branchiostegidae), from Okinawa Island, Southern Japan" (PDF). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science (Ser. A) Supplement. No. 6: 41–49.
  8. ↑ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 456. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
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