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Plectorhinchus Mediterraneus
The rubberlip grunt (''Plectorhinchus mediterraneus'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae, one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae, the grunts. It is native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Description The rubberlip grunt has an oblong compressed body and has a standard length which is around two and a half times its depth. The head is relatively small with a long snout and a relatively small, slightly oblique mouth which has moderately thick lips. The continuous dorsal fin has 10-13 spines and 17-20 soft rays while the anal fin contains 3 spines and 8-9 soft rays. The caudal fin is emarginate and has pointed lobes. They are largely greyish-brown in colour, marked with paler stripes and with a dark, rather unclear, stripe starting immediately underneath the soft-rayed part of the dorsal fin and extending back to the caudal peduncle. The abdomen is paler, almost white. The maximum recorded standard length is , alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse Guichenot
Antoine Alphonse Guichenot (31 July 1809 in Paris – 17 February 1876 in Cluny) was a French zoology, zoologist who taught, researched, and participated in specimen collecting trips on behalf of the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle'' (Paris), including an extensive biological survey of Algeria. His primary fields of research included fish and reptiles. He is credited with describing the ichthyological genera ''Agonomalus'', ''Neosebastes'' (gurnard scorpionfishes) and ''Glossanodon''.Publications: University series, Volumes 36-40 by Stanford University He also described numerous new species, including the New Caledonian Crested Gecko, New Caledonian crested gecko, ''Correlophus ciliatis'' (changed to ''Rhacodactylus ciliatus'' in 1994, but reclassified as ''Correlophus ciliatis'' in 2012). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomadasys Stridens
''Pomadasys stridens'', the striped piggy or lined piggy, is a grunt from the western Indian Ocean and is one of a group of Indo-Pacific marine species which have colonised the Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ... through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea, a process known as Lessepsian migration. Description ''Pomadasys stridens'' has a silvery body which is slightly darker dorsally than it is ventrally. It has 3-4 golden-brown stripes along its body, merging towards the caudal peduncle, and a dark blotch on the operculum (fish), operculum. It has a relatively large head with a small, slightly oblique mouth and two pores on the tip of the chin which lie in front of a short indentation. It has 12 spines and 13–14 soft rays in the dorsal fin with 3 sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |