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Carapinae
Carapinae is a subfamily of pearlfishes, of the family Carapidae. The subfamily consists of four genera: *''Carapus'' Rafinesque, 1810 *''Echiodon'' Thompson, 1837 *''Encheliophis'' Müller, 1842 *''Onuxodon ''Onuxodon'' is an Indo-Pacific genus of pearlfishes from the family Carapidae. The generic name is derived from the Greek ''onyx'' meaning "claw" and ''odon'' meaning "tooth", referring to the sharp fang like teeth of ''Onuxodon parvibrachium ...'' J.L.B. Smith, 1955 References {{taxobar, From=Q21446627 Carapidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearlfish
Pearlfish are marine fish in the ray-finned fish family Carapidae. Pearlfishes inhabit the tropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans at depths to , along oceanic shelves and slopes. They are slender, elongated fish with no scales, translucent bodies, and dorsal fin rays which are shorter than their anal fin rays. Adults of most species live symbiotically inside various invertebrate hosts, and some live parasitically inside sea cucumbers. The larvae are free living. Characteristics Pearlfishes are slender, distinguished by having dorsal fin rays that are shorter than their anal fin rays. They have translucent, scaleless bodies reminiscent of eels. The largest pearlfish are about in length. They reproduce by laying oval-shaped eggs, about 1 mm in length. Ecology Pearlfishes are unusual in that the adults of most species live inside various types of invertebrates. They typically live inside clams, starfish, or sea squirts, and are simply commensal, not h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carapidae
Pearlfish are marine fish in the ray-finned fish family Carapidae. Pearlfishes inhabit the tropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans at depths to , along oceanic shelves and slopes. They are slender, elongated fish with no scales, translucent bodies, and dorsal fin rays which are shorter than their anal fin rays. Adults of most species live symbiotically inside various invertebrate hosts, and some live parasitically inside sea cucumbers. The larvae are free living. Characteristics Pearlfishes are slender, distinguished by having dorsal fin rays that are shorter than their anal fin rays. They have translucent, scaleless bodies reminiscent of eels. The largest pearlfish are about in length. They reproduce by laying oval-shaped eggs, about 1 mm in length. Ecology Pearlfishes are unusual in that the adults of most species live inside various types of invertebrates. They typically live inside clams, starfish, or sea squirts, and are simply commensal, not h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinhead Pearlfish
The pinhead pearlfish, ''Encheliophis boraborensis'', is a species of slender, ray-finned fish in the family Carapidae found in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean; it normally lives inside the body cavity of a sea cucumber such as the pineapple sea cucumber (''Thelenota ananas'') or the leopard sea cucumber (''Bohadschia argus''). Description The pinhead pearlfish is a slender, tapering, eel-like fish that can grow to a length of . It has very small eyes and near the jaws are star-shaped melanophores which are more numerous in older specimens. This fish has no scales or pelvic fins, but does have short pectoral fins and an elongated dorsal fin with 31 to 42 soft rays. The equally long anal fin has 45 to 57 soft rays, and ''C. boraborensis'' is the only species in the family to have melanophores on its anal fins. It is a medium brown-coloured fish with a solid body and much enlarged swim bladder that occupies most of its body cavity. Distribution The pinhead pearlfish is found in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Poey
Felipe Poey (May 26, 1799 – January 28, 1891) was a Cuban zoologist. Biography Poey was born in Havana, the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years (1804 to 1807) of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid. He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the natural science and traveled to France in 1825 with his wife. He began writing on the butterflies of Cuba and acquiring knowledge on fish, later supplying Georges Cuvier and Valenciennes with fish specimens from Cuba. He took part in the foundation, in 1832, of the Société Entomologique de France. Poey returned to Cuba in 1833 where he founded the Museum of Natural History in 1839. In 1842 he became the first professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Havana The University of Havana or (UH, ''Universidad de La Habana'') is a university located in the Vedado district of Hava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoological names with "-inae". See also * International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants * International Code of Zoological Nomenclature * Rank (botany) * Rank (zoology) In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system consists of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain. While ... Sources {{biology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carapus
''Carapus'' is a genus of pearlfishes, with these currently recognized species: * ''Carapus acus'' ( Brünnich, 1768) (pearlfish) * ''Carapus bermudensis'' ( J. M. Jones, 1874) (Atlantic pearlfish) * ''Carapus dubius'' ( Putnam, 1874) (Pacific pearlfish) * ''Carapus mourlani'' ( Petit, 1934) (star pearlfish) * ''Carapus sluiteri ''Carapus'' is a genus of pearlfishes, with these currently recognized species: * ''Carapus acus'' ( Brünnich, 1768) (pearlfish) * '' Carapus bermudensis'' ( J. M. Jones, 1874) (Atlantic pearlfish) * '' Carapus dubius'' ( Putnam, 1874) (Pacific ...'' ( M. C. W. Weber, 1905) References Carapidae Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque {{Ophidiiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (; October 22, 1783September 18, 1840) was a French 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France. He traveled as a young man in the United States, ultimately settling in Ohio in 1815, where he made notable contributions to botany, zoology, and the study of prehistoric earthworks in North America. He also contributed to the study of ancient Mesoamerican linguistics, in addition to work he had already completed in Europe. Rafinesque was an eccentric and erratic genius. He was an autodidact, who excelled in various fields of knowledge, as a zoologist, botanist, writer and polyglot. He wrote prolifically on such diverse topics as anthropology, biology, geology, and linguistics, but was honored in none of these fields during his lifetime. Indeed, he was an outcast in the American scientific community whose submissions were rejected automatically by leading journals. Among his theories were th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echiodon
''Echiodon'' is a genus of pearlfishes, with these currently recognized species: * ''Echiodon anchipterus'' J. T. Williams, 1984 (closefin pearlfish) * ''Echiodon atopus'' M. E. Anderson, 2005 * ''Echiodon coheni'' J. T. Williams, 1984 * ''Echiodon cryomargarites'' Markle, J. T. Williams & Olney, 1983 (messmate) * ''Echiodon dawsoni'' J. T. Williams & Shipp, 1982 (Chain pearlfish) * ''Echiodon dentatus'' (G. Cuvier, 1829) * ''Echiodon drummondii'' W. Thompson, 1837 * ''Echiodon exsilium'' Rosenblatt, 1961 (nocturnal pearlfish) * '' Echiodon neotes'' Markle & Olney, 1990 * ''Echiodon pegasus'' Markle & Olney, 1990 * ''Echiodon prionodon'' Parmentier, 2012Parmentier, E. (2012)''Echiodon prionodon'', a new species of Carapidae (Pisces, Ophidiiformes) from New Zealand. ''European Journal of Taxonomy, 31: 1-8.'' * ''Echiodon pukaki'' Markle & Olney, 1990 * ''Echiodon rendahli'' ( Whitley, 1941) (Rendahl's messmate) The name derives from Ancient Greek εχις (''echis'', "viper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thompson (naturalist)
William Thompson (2 December 1805 – 17 February 1852) was an Irish naturalist celebrated for his founding studies of the natural history of Ireland, especially in ornithology and marine biology. Thompson published numerous notes on the distribution, breeding, eggs, habitat, song, plumage, behaviour, nesting and food of birds. These formed the basis of his four-volume ''The Natural History of Ireland'', and were much used by contemporary and later authors such as Francis Orpen Morris. Early years Thompson was born in the booming maritime city of Belfast, Ireland, the eldest son of a linen merchant, whose wealth would later permit Thompson to fund his own research without an academic affiliation. Thompson attended the newly formed Royal Belfast Academical Institution, where he got a degree in Biological Science. Founded by, amongst others, John Templeton, the school had a strong natural history section that produced a cohort of prominent naturalists. In 1826 he went on a G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encheliophis
''Encheliophis'' is a genus of pearlfishes, with six currently recognized species: * '' Encheliophis boraborensis'' ( Kaup, 1856) (pinhead pearlfish) * '' Encheliophis chardewalli'' Parmentier, 2004 * '' Encheliophis gracilis'' (Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher"). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
