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Dendrochirus
''Dendrochirus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. They are mostly known as turkeyfishes or pygmy lionfishes. They are native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are also popular aquarium fish. Taxonomy ''Dendrochirus'' was described as a genus in 1839 by the English naturalist William John Swainson. Swainson also named the genera ''Brachirus'' and ''Brachyrus'' in the same work but in later pages. In 1876 Pieter Bleeker revised the genus and chose ''Dendrochirus'' as the name for the genus. In 1882 Joseph Swain designated ''Pterois zebra'', described by Georges Cuvier from Mauritius in 1829, as the type species of ''Brachyrus'' which he considered to be a synonym of ''Pterois''. This genus is classified within the tribe Pteroini of the subfamily Scorpaeninae within the family Scorpaenidae. Some authorities divide the genus into two subgenera, the subgenus ''Dendrochirus'' containing all the species excep ...
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Dendrochirus Bellus
''Dendrochirus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. They are mostly known as turkeyfishes or pygmy lionfishes. They are native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are also popular aquarium fish. Taxonomy ''Dendrochirus'' was described as a genus in 1839 by the English naturalist William John Swainson. Swainson also named the genera ''Brachirus'' and ''Brachyrus'' in the same work but in later pages. In 1876 Pieter Bleeker revised the genus and chose ''Dendrochirus'' as the name for the genus. In 1882 Joseph Swain designated ''Pterois zebra'', described by Georges Cuvier from Mauritius in 1829, as the type species of ''Brachyrus'' which he considered to be a synonym of ''Pterois''. This genus is classified within the tribe Pteroini of the subfamily Scorpaeninae within the family Scorpaenidae. Some authorities divide the genus into two subgenera, the subgenus ''Dendrochirus'' containing all the species except ''D. ...
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Dendrochirus Biocellatus
''Dendrochirus biocellatus'', the twospot turkeyfish, twinspot lionfish, twoeyed lionfish or ocellated lionfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and lionfishes. This species is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific region, In the wild, the species eats small fish as well as shrimp. Taxonomy ''Dendrochirus biocellatus'' Was first formally described as ''Nemapterois biocellatus'' in 1938 by the American zoologist Henry Weed Fowler with the type locality given as off Jolo Light on Jolo Island in the Sulu Sea in the Philippines. This is the only species in the monotypic subgenus ''Nemapterois'', this name being a compound of ''nema'', meaning “thread” and ''Pterois'', the genus of “typical” lionfishes. The specific name biocellatus means two spots, alluding to the two eye like spots, called ocelli, on the soft rayed part of the dorsal fin. Description ''Dendrochirus biocellatus'' ...
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Dendrochirus Barberi
''Dendrochirus barberi'', the Hawaiian lionfish or green lionfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and lionfishes. It occurs in the Eastern Central Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. Taxonomy ''Dendrochirus barberi'' Was first formally described in 1900 as ''Pterois barberi'' by the Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner with the type locality given as between Honolulu and Cape Horn, although it was actually near the Hawaiian Islands. This species is part of the ''brachypterus'' species complex within the genus ''Dendrochirus''. The specific name honours Captain Barber who caught the holotype among plankton on the voyage from Honolulu to Cape Horn in 1896-97, Steindachner gave no further information about Captain Barber. Description ''Dendrochirus barberi'' has 13 spines and 9 soft rays in its dorsal fin and 3 spines and 5 soft rays in its anal fin, the spines in the dorsal fin are m ...
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Pteroini
Pteroini is a tribe of marine ray-finned fishes, one of two tribes in the subfamily Scorpaeninae. This tribe includes the lionfishes, sawcheek scorpionfishes and turkeyfishes. The taxonomy of the scorpionfishes is in some flux; the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World treats this taxa as a tribe within the subfamily Scorpaeninae of the family Scorpaenidae within the order Scorpaeniformes, while other authorities treat it as a subfamily within a reduced family Scorpaenidae within the suborder Scorpaenoidei, or the superfamily Scorpaenoidea within the order Perciformes Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means .... Genera The following genera are included in the tribe Pterioni, totalling 5 genera and 29 species: References {{Taxonbar, from=Q19793640 Scorpaeninae Pter ...
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Scorpaeninae
Scorpaeninae is a subfamily of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae in the order Scorpaeniformes, it includes the scorpionfishes, the lionfishes and turkeyfishes. They bear venomous spines in the anal, dorsal and pelvic fins which can cause severe pain in envenomated humans. The subfamily is distributed in the tropical and temperate seas around the world. Genera Scorpaeninae is divided into two tribes, the Scorpaenini, which contains 17 genera, and the Pteroini which contains 5 genera: * Scorpaenini Risso, 1826 ** '' Hipposcorpaena'' Fowler, 1938 ** '' Hoplosebastes'' Schmidt, 1929 ** ''Idiastion'' Eschmeyer, 1965 ** '' Iracundus'' Jordan & Evermann, 1903 ** ''Neomerinthe Fowler, 1935 ** '' Neoscorpaena'' Mandrytsa, 2001 ** '' Parascorpaena'' Bleeker, 1876 ** '' Phenacoscorpius'' Fowler, 1938 ** '' Pogonoscorpius'' Regan, 1908 ** '' Pontinus'' Poey 1860 ** '' Pteroidichthys'' Bleeker, 1856 ** ''Rhinopias'' Gill, 1905 ** ''Scorpaena'' Linnaeus, 1758 ** '' Scorp ...
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Carl Leavitt Hubbs
Carl Leavitt Hubbs (October 19, 1894 – June 30, 1979) was an American ichthyologist. Biography Youth He was born in Williams, Arizona. He was the son of Charles Leavitt and Elizabeth (née Goss) Hubbs. His father had a wide variety of jobs (farmer, iron mine owner, newspaper owner). The family moved several times before settling in San Diego where he got his first taste of natural history. After his parents divorced in 1907, he lived with his mother, who opened a private school in Redondo Beach, California. His maternal grandmother Jane Goble Goss, one of the first female doctors, showed Hubbs how to harvest shellfish and other sea creatures. One of his teachers, impressed by Hubbs's abilities in science, recommended that he study chemistry at the University of Berkeley. The family moved once more to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, George Bliss Culver, one of the many volunteers of David Starr Jordan, encouraged Hubbs to abandon his study of birds and instead to study fish, par ...
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David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford University, he had served as president of Indiana University from 1884 to 1891. Starr was also a strong supporter of eugenics, and his published views expressed a fear of "race-degeneration" and asserted that cattle and human beings are "governed by the same laws of selection". He was an antimilitarist since he believed that war killed off the best members of the gene pool, and he initially opposed American involvement in World War I. Early life and career Jordan was born in Gainesville, New York, and grew up on a farm in upstate New York. His parents made the unorthodox decision to educate him at a local girls' high school. His middle name, Starr, does not appear in early census records, and was apparently self-selected; he had begun using ...
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Franz Steindachner
Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian Zoology, zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner described hundreds of new species of fish and dozens of new amphibians and reptiles. At least seven species of reptile have been named after him. Work and career Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess (1831–1914). In 1860 he was appointed to the position of director of the fish collection at the Naturhistorisches Museum, a position which had remained vacant since the death of Johann Jakob Heckel (1790–1857). (in German). Steindachner's reputation as an Ichthyology, ichthyologist grew, and in 1868 he was invited by Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) to accept a position at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Steindachner took ...
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Hawaiian Lionfish (Dendrochirus Barberi) At The Waikiki Aquarium
Hawaiian may refer to: * Native Hawaiians, the current term for the indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants * Hawaii state residents, regardless of ancestry (only used outside of Hawaii) * Hawaiian language Historic uses * things and people of the Kingdom of Hawaii, during the period from 1795 to 1893 * things and people of the Republic of Hawaii, the short period between the overthrow of the monarchy and U.S. annexation * things and people of the Territory of Hawaii, during the period the area was a U.S. territory from 1898 to 1959 * things and people of the Sandwich Islands, the name used for the Hawaiian Islands around the end of the 18th century Other uses * Hawaiian Airlines, a commercial airline based in Hawaii * Hawaiian pizza, a style of pizza topped with pineapple See also * Hawaiians (other) * Hawaiian cuisine (other) * Hawaiian Islands * Hawaiian kinship Hawaiian kinship, also referred to as the generational system, is a ki ...
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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 ...
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Compound (linguistics)
In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition is the process of word formation that creates compound lexemes. Compounding occurs when two or more words or signs are joined to make a longer word or sign. A compound that uses a space rather than a hyphen or concatenation is called an open compound or a spaced compound; the alternative is a closed compound. The meaning of the compound may be similar to or different from the meaning of its components in isolation. The component stems of a compound may be of the same part of speech—as in the case of the English word ''footpath'', composed of the two nouns ''foot'' and ''path''—or they may belong to different parts of speech, as in the case of the English word ''blackbird'', composed of the adjective ''black'' and the noun ''bird''. With very few exceptions, English compound words are stressed on their first component ...
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