Sudis hyalina

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Sudis hyalina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Aulopiformes
Family: Paralepididae
Genus: Sudis
Species:
S. hyalina
Binomial name
Sudis hyalina
(Rafinesque, 1810)
Synonyms [2]
  • Paralepis hyalinaRafinesque, 1810
  • Paralepis hyalinusRafinesque, 1810
  • Sudis hyalineRafinesque, 1810
  • Sudis hyalinusRafinesque, 1810

Sudis hyalina is a species of fish in the family Paralepididae (barracudinas). [3] [4]

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Name

Its specific name hyalina is from the Ancient Greek ὑάλῐνος (hyalinos, "crystal, glass"). [5]

It has no common name in English, but is known in Turkish as yalanci zargana ("false garfish") or derin deniz turna baligi ("deep-sea pike") and in Hebrew as ליסטים ארוך-סנפיר (listim aroch-snapir, "long-fin bandit"); this name refers to its long pectoral fins. [6] [7]

Description

Sudis hyalina is elongated, maximum 1 m (3.3 ft) long, and silvery-pink in colour. [8] It has large teeth in the lower jaw, fixed and armed with serrated edges. It has 59 or 60 vertebrae. [9] [7]

Habitat

Sudis hyalina lives in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. It is mesopelagic to bathypelagic, living at 200–2,000 m (660–6,560 ft). [8]

Behaviour

Sudis hyalina spawns near the surface in temperate to tropical waters. [10]

It is believed to be one of the fish responsible for chewing at submarine communications cable. [11] [12]

References

  1. Bannermann, P.; Poss, S.; Russell, B.; Nunoo, F. (2015). "Sudis hyalina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2015 e.T190101A15589147. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T190101A15589147.en .
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Sudis hyalina Rafinesque, 1810". www.marinespecies.org.
  3. "Zoologica: Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society". Zoologica. (New York). September 2, 1951 via Google Books.
  4. McEachran, John; Fechhelm, Janice D. (June 17, 2013). Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Vol. 1: Myxiniformes to Gasterosteiformes. University of Texas Press. ISBN   978-0-292-75705-9 via Google Books.
  5. Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Günther, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (September 2, 1864). "Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum". Wheldon & Wesley via Google Books.
  6. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Sudis hyalina Rafinesque, 1810". www.marinespecies.org.
  7. 1 2 "Marine Species Identification Portal: Sudis hyalina". species-identification.org.
  8. 1 2 "Sudis hyalina". www.fishbase.se.
  9. Smith, Margaret M.; Heemstra, Phillip C. (December 6, 2012). Smiths' Sea Fishes. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN   978-3-642-82858-4 via Google Books.
  10. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Sudis hyalina Rafinesque, 1810". www.marinespecies.org.
  11. "Sudis hyalina". fishbase.mnhn.fr.
  12. Priede, I. G. (August 10, 2017). Deep-Sea Fishes: Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-107-08382-0 via Google Books.