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Cirrhitops
''Cirrhitops'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, hawkfishes from the family Cirrhitidae. They are found on tropical reefs of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy ''Cirrhitops'' was described as a genus in 1951 by the South African ichthyologist J.L.B. Smith with ''Cirrhites fasciatus'' as the type species. When he described the genus Smith stated that it was monotypic as he considered that ''Cirrhites hubbardi'', which had been described in 1941 by the American ichthyologist Leonard P. Schultz, was a synonym of ''C. fasciatus''. The name of the genus has the name of the type genus of the family, ''Cirrhitus'', suffixed with ''ops'' meaning that they species in the genus are similar in appearance to the species in ''Cirrhitus'' and '' Cirrhitichthys''. In 1963 John Ernest Randall reviewed the hawkfish family Cirrhitidae and included two species within the genus, ''C. fasciatus'' and ''C. hubbardi''. In that review he did note that ''C. fasciatus'' had a widely di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirrhitops Hubbardi
''Cirrhitops hubbardi'', Hubbard's hawkfish or the white-spotted hawkfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a hawkfish belonging to the family Cirrhitidae. It is found in the Western Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy ''Cirrhitops hubbardi'' was first formally described in 1943 as ''Amblycirrhitus hubbardi'' by the American ichthyologist Leonard Peter Schultz with the type locality give as the reef at Enderbury Island in the Phoenix Islands. When the genus ''Cirrhitops'' was described in 1951 by the South African ichthyologist J.L.B. Smith, he considered ''A. hubbardi'' to be a synonym of the redbarred hawkfish (''C. fasciatus'') and so described the new genus as monotypic. In 1963 John Ernest Randall proved that the colour pattern of this species was consistently different from the redbarred hawkfish, confirming it as a valid species. The population in Japan appears to be separated from the population in the central Pacific and may be a new species. The specific name honours Command ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirrhitops Mascarenensis
''Cirrhitops mascarenensis'' is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a hawkfish belonging to the family Cirrhitidae. It is found in the southwestern Indian Ocean. Taxonomy ''Cirrhitops mascarenensis'' was first formally described in 2008 by John Ernest Randall and Jennifer K. Schultz with the type locality given as a pass close to the Trou d'Eau Douce off the eastern coast of Mauritius. The ''Cirrhitops'' hawkfish found in the southwestern Indian Ocean wereregarded as conspecific with those found around the Hawaiian Islands, the redbarred hawkfish (''C. fasciatus'') but in 2008, Randall and Schultz, described a new species from the south western Indian Ocean based on genetic and morphological analyses. This then resolved the status of the redbarred hawkfish as a species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. The specific name means "of the Mascarenes", a reference to the islands of Mauritius and Réunion which form part of its range. Description ''Cirrhitops mascarenensis'' has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirrhitops Fasciatus
The redbarred hawkfish ('' Cirrhitops fasciatus'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a hawkfish belonging to the family Cirrhitidae. It is endemic to the Hawaiian Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy The redbarred hawkfish was first formally described in 1828 as ''Cirrhites fasciatus'' by the English naturalist Edward Turner Bennett with the type locality given as the Hawaiian Islands. In 1829 Georges Cuvier described a species with the same name with the type locality given as Puducherry in India which Albert Günther mistakenly thought predated Turner’s description. Günther devised the new name ''Cirrhites cinctus'' to replace Turner’s original name but Cuvier published his name a year after Bennett published, meaning Cuvier’s name was invalid and Günther‘s replacement name unnecessary. ''Cirrhites'' was a common misspelling of '' Cirrfitus''. In 1951 the South African ichthyologist J.L.B. Smith described the new genus ''Cirrhitops'' with ''Cirrhites fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawkfish
Cirrhitidae, the hawkfishes, are a family of marine perciform ray-finned fishes found in tropical seas and which are associated with coral reefs. Taxonomy The Cirrhitidae were first recognised as a family by the Scots-born Australian naturalist William Sharp Macleay in 1841. It is one of the 5 constituent families in the superfamily Cirrhitoidea which is classified in the suborder Percoidei of the order Perciformes. Within the Cirrhitoidea, the Cirrhitidae is probably the most basal family. They have been placed in the order Centrarchiformes by some authorities, as part of the superfamily Cirrhitoidea, however, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise the Centrarchiformes. The name of the family is taken from that of the genus ''Cirrhitus'' which is derived from ''cirrhus'' meaning a "lock of hair" or "a barbel", thought to be a reference to lower, unbranched rays of the pectoral fins which Bernard Germain de Lacépède termed as “''barbillons''”, which mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirrhitidae
Cirrhitidae, the hawkfishes, are a family of marine perciform ray-finned fishes found in tropical seas and which are associated with coral reefs. Taxonomy The Cirrhitidae were first recognised as a family by the Scots-born Australian naturalist William Sharp Macleay in 1841. It is one of the 5 constituent families in the superfamily Cirrhitoidea which is classified in the suborder Percoidei of the order Perciformes. Within the Cirrhitoidea, the Cirrhitidae is probably the most basal family. They have been placed in the order Centrarchiformes by some authorities, as part of the superfamily Cirrhitoidea, however, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise the Centrarchiformes. The name of the family is taken from that of the genus ''Cirrhitus'' which is derived from ''cirrhus'' meaning a "lock of hair" or "a barbel", thought to be a reference to lower, unbranched rays of the pectoral fins which Bernard Germain de Lacépède termed as “''barbillons''”, which m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirrhitichthys
''Cirrhitichthys'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, hawkfishes, from the family Cirrhitidae. They are found on tropical reefs in the Indian and western Pacific oceans. Some species can be found in the aquarium trade. Taxonomy ''Cirrhitichthys'' was first formally described in 1857 by the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker. The type species designated by Bleeker was ''Cirrhites graphidopterus'' which had been described by him in 1853, although this taxon has subsequently been considered a synonym of ''Cirrhites aprinus'' which Georges Cuvier had described in 1829. The name of this genus is a compound of ''Cirrhitus'', referring to the similarity between the two genera, although there are differences in dentition, and ''ichthys'' meaning “fish”. Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: * '' Cirrhitichthys aprinus'' (G. Cuvier, 1829) (spotted hawkfish) * '' Cirrhitichthys aureus'' (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842) (yellow hawkfish) * '' Cirrhitichthys bleekeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirrhitus
''Cirrhitus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, hawkfishes from the family Cirrhitidae. The species in this genus are found on tropical reefs worldwide. Taxonomy ''Cirrhites'' was first formally described as a genus in 1803 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Lacépède created it as a monotypic genus for his newly described species from Mauritius, ''Cirrhitus maculatus''. However, it was later shown that Lacépède's ''C. maculatus'' was synonymous with ''Labrus pinnulatus'' described in manuscript by the German naturalist and explorer Johann Reinhold Forster from Tahiti. Forster's was the basis of the description published in 1801 by Johann Gottlob Schneider in his and Marcus Elieser Bloch's ''Systema Ichthyologiae'', although ''Catalog of Fishes'' attributes the name to Forster. The name of this genus is dereived from ''cirrhus'' meaning a "lock of hair" or a "barbel", Lacépède did not explain what he feature the name alludes to. It may be allu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirri
Giovanni Battista Cirri (1 October 1724 – 11 June 1808) was an Italian cellist and composer in the 18th century. Biography Cirri was born in Forlì in the Emilia-Romagna Region of Italy. He had his first musical training with his brother Ignazio (1711–1787) and was for a time organist at Forlì Cathedral. He also studied with Giovanni Battista Martini, in Bologna. In 1739 he was admitted to Holy Orders but decided to pursue a musical career. From 1759 he was a member of the "Accademia Filarmonica". He was in Paris during the first half of the 1760s and his first works were published including a "Symphony" which was performed at the Concert Spirituel on 5 April 1763. In 1764 he settled in London where he was employed as chamber musician to the Duke of York and Albany and director of music to the Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. His first public appearance in London on 16 May 1764 was as an accompanist to violinist Marcella. He played solos at the eight-year-old Moz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorsal Fin
A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom. Many species of animals possessing dorsal fins are not particularly closely related to each other, though through convergent evolution they have independently evolved external superficial fish-like body plans adapted to their marine environments, including most numerously fish, but also mammals such as cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), and even extinct ancient marine reptiles such as various known species of ichthyosaurs. Most species have only one dorsal fin, but some have two or three. Wildlife biologists often use the distinctive nicks and wear patterns which develop on the dorsal fins of large cetaceans to identify individuals in the field. The bony or cartilaginous bones that support the base of the dorsal fin in fish are called ''pterygiophores''. Functions The main purpose of the dorsal fin is to stabilize the animal against rollin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pectoral Fin
Fins are distinctive anatomical features composed of bony spines or rays protruding from the body of a fish. They are covered with skin and joined together either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as seen in sharks. Apart from the tail or caudal fin, fish fins have no direct connection with the spine and are supported only by muscles. Their principal function is to help the fish swim. Fins located in different places on the fish serve different purposes such as moving forward, turning, keeping an upright position or stopping. Most fish use fins when swimming, flying fish use pectoral fins for gliding, and frogfish use them for crawling. Fins can also be used for other purposes; male sharks and mosquitofish use a modified fin to deliver sperm, thresher sharks use their caudal fin to stun prey, reef stonefish have spines in their dorsal fins that inject venom, anglerfish use the first spine of their dorsal fin like a fishing rod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer K
Jennifer or Jenifer may refer to: People *Jennifer (given name) * Jenifer (singer), French pop singer * Jennifer Warnes, American singer who formerly used the stage name Jennifer * Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer * Daniel Jenifer Film and television * ''Jennifer'' (1953 film), a film starring Ida Lupino * ''Jennifer'' (1978 film), a horror film by Brice Mack * ''Jennifer'', a 1998 Ghanaian film starring Brew Riverson Jnr * "Jenifer" (''Masters of Horror''), an episode of ''Masters of Horror'' Music * The Jennifers, a British band, some of whose members later formed Supergrass * ''Jenifer'' (album), an album by French singer Jenifer * ''Jennifer'' (album), a 1972 album by Jennifer Warnes * "Jennifer", a 1974 song by Faust from ''Faust IV'' * "Jennifer", a 1983 song by Eurythmics from ''Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)'' (album) * "Jennifer", a 2001 song by M2M from ''The Big Room'' Other uses * Hurricane Jennifer * Project Jennifer, a CIA attempt to recover a Soviet subm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ernest Randall
John Ernest "Jack" Randall (May 22, 1924 – April 26, 2020) was an American ichthyologist and a leading authority on coral reef fishes. Randall described over 800 species and authored 11 books and over 900 scientific papers and popular articles. He spent most of his career working in Hawaii. He died in April 2020 at the age of 95. Career John Ernest Randall was born in Los Angeles, California in May 1924, to John and Mildred (McKibben) Randall. In high school he acquired a love of marine fish after a visit to the tide pools of Palos Verdes and, after serving stateside in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during the post- D-Day years of WWII,John Randall bio, The Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences. (http://www.auas-nogi.org/bio_randall_john.html) received his BA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1950. In 1955 he earned his Ph.D in ichthyology from the University of Hawaii. After spending two years as a research associate at the Bishop Museum in Honol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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