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Sweetlips (fish)
Plectorhinchinae, is one of two subfamilies of the family Haemulidae, some known colloquially as sweetlips. This subfamily is regarded as having an Old World origin. Genera The following genera are included in the Plectorhinchinae: *''Diagramma'' Oken, 1817 *''Genyatremus'' Gill, 1862 *''Parapristipoma'' Bleeker, 1873 *''Plectorhinchus'' Lacépède, 1801 Some authorities place the genus ''Genyatremus'' within the Haemulinae Haemulinae is a subfamily of the Haemulidae and consists of the genera of that family which are regarded as being of New World origin, although they are now widespread. The subfamily is distinguished from the Plectorhynchinae by having a short d ..., although both Fishbase and ''Catalog of Fishes'' put this genus in the subfamily Plectorhinchinae. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15078740 Haemulidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plectorhinchus Lessonii
''Plectorhinchus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae which is one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae which also includes the grunts. The species in this genus are found in fresh, brackish, and salt waters. Description and characteristics These fish have big, fleshy lips and tend to live on coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific in small groups or pairs. They will often associate with other fishes of similar species; several species of sweetlips sometimes swim together. They are usually seen in clusters in nooks and crannies or under overhangs. At nightfall, they venture from their shelters to seek out their bottom-dwelling invertebrate prey, such as bristleworms, shrimps, and small crabs. Sweetlips colouring and patterning changes throughout their lives. For example, ''Plectorhinchus polytaenia'' develops more stripes with age. Juvenile sweetlips generally look quite different from the adults, and often live solitar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Francis Thompson
William Francis Thompson (born St. Cloud, Minnesota 1888, died 7 November 1965) was an American ichthyologist and fisheries scientist. He researched the exploitation and management of the stocks of Pacific halibut for the fisheries department in British Columbia in the early 20th century, as well as the restoration Fraser River sockeye salmon run in the mid twentieth century. Thompson attended Stanford Univeristy for his doctoral research. His dissertation was titled, ''The biology of the halibut, with particular reference to marking experiments''. He completed the research for his dissertation in 1930 at the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California. Thompson was the director of the School of Fisheries at the University of Washington from 1934, and between 1937 and 1943 he was the director of the international Pacific Salmon Commission working in Canada and Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haemulidae
Haemulidae is a family of fishes in the order Perciformes known commonly as grunts. It is made up of the two subfamilies Haemulinae (grunters) and Plectorhynchinae (sweetlips), which in turn contain about 133 species in 19 genera. These fish are found in tropical fresh, brackish, and salt waters around the world. They are bottom-feeding predators, and named for the ability of Haemulinae to produce sound by grinding their teeth. They also engage in mutualistic relationship with cleaner gobies of genus ''Elacatinus'', allowing them to feed on ectoparasites on their bodies. Timeline ImageSize = width:850px height:auto barincrement:15px PlotArea = left:10px bottom:50px top:10px right:10px Period = from:-65.5 till:10 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:-65.5 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:-65.5 TimeAxis = orientation:hor AlignBars = justify Colors = #legends id:CAR value:claret id:ANK value:rgb(0.4,0.3,0. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Register Of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific specialists on each group of organism. These taxonomists control the quality of the information, which is gathered from the primary scientific literature as well as from some external regional and taxon-specific databases. WoRMS maintains valid names of all marine organisms, but also provides information on synonyms and invalid names. It is an ongoing task to maintain the registry, since new species are constantly being discovered and described by scientists; in addition, the nomenclature and taxonomy of existing species is often corrected or changed as new research is constantly being published. Subsets of WoRMS content are made available, and can have separate badging and their own home/launch pages, as "subregisters", such as the ''World List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diagramma
''Diagramma'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Haemulidae, Grunt (fish), grunts native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. The currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''Diagramma centurio'' Georges Cuvier, G. Cuvier, 1830 (sailfin rubberlip) * ''Diagramma labiosum'' William John Macleay, W. J. Macleay, 1883 * ''Diagramma melanacrum'' Jeffrey W. Johnson (ichthyologist), J. W. Johnson & John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2001 (blackfin slatey) * ''Diagramma pictum'' (Carl Peter Thunberg, Thunberg, 1792) (painted sweetlips) * ''Diagramma punctatum'' G. Cuvier, 1830 Systematics ''Diagramma'' was originally used as a Tautology (language), tautological name for ''Anthias diagramma'' in 1792 by Marcus Elieser Bloch in error for Linnaeus’s ''Perca diagramma'', Lorenz Oken used Bloch’s taxon as the type species of the new genus ''Diagramma'' in 1917. This is a Synonym (taxonomy), synonym for Carl Peter Thunberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenz Oken
Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss (german: Okenfuß) in Bohlsbach (now part of Offenburg), Ortenau, Baden, and studied natural history and medicine at the universities of Freiburg and Würzburg. He went on to the University of Göttingen, where he became a ''Privatdozent'' (unsalaried lecturer), and shortened his name to Oken. As Lorenz Oken, he published a small work entitled ''Grundriss der Naturphilosophie, der Theorie der Sinne, mit der darauf gegründeten Classification der Thiere'' (1802). This was the first of a series of works which established him as a leader of the movement of " Naturphilosophie" in Germany. In it he extended to physical science the philosophical principles which Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) had applied to epistemology and morality. Oken had been preceded in this by Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), who, acknowledging that Kant had discovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genyatremus
''Genyatremus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhynchinae, one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae, it consists of four species. The name of this genus is a compound of ''genys'' meaning “chin”, ''a'' meaning “without” and ''tremus'' meaning “pore”, a reference to the lack of a central pore on the chin in the fishes in this genus. Species The species included in the genus ''Genyatremus'' are: *'' Genyatremus cavifrons'' ( Cuvier, 1830) *'' Genyatremus dovii'' ( Günther, 1864) *'' Genyatremus luteus'' (Bloch, 1790) *'' Genyatremus pacifici'' (Günther, 1864) Some authorities have argued that ''Genyatremus luteus'' is not a valid name and that this taxon is synonymous with Cuvier’s ''Diagramma cavifrons''. Others argue that Cuvier's ''D. cavifrons'' is not a haemulid but is a member of another family altogether and that Bloch's ''L. luteus'' is valid and should be used as the type species of the genus ''Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Nicholas Gill
Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist and librarian. Career Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural history. He was associated with J. Carson Brevoort in the arrangement of the latter's entomological and ichthyological collections before going to Washington D.C. in 1863 to work at the Smithsonian Institution. He catalogued mammals, fishes and mollusks most particularly although maintaining proficiency in other orders of animals. He was librarian at the Smithsonian and also senior assistant to the Library of Congress. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1867. Gill was professor of zoology at George Washington University. He was also a member of the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Fellow members frequently mocked him for his vanity. He was president of the American Association f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parapristipoma
''Parapristipoma'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, Sweetlips (fish), sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae of the Family (biology), family Haemulidae. The species within the genus are native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''Parapristipoma humile'' (Sarah Bowdich Lee, S. Bowdich, 1825) (Guinean grunt) * ''Parapristipoma macrops'' (Jacques Pellegrin, Pellegrin, 1912) * ''Parapristipoma octolineatum'' (Achille Valenciennes, Valenciennes, 1833) (African striped grunt) * ''Parapristipoma trilineatum'' (Carl Peter Thunberg, Thunberg, 1793) (chicken grunt) References Plectorhinchinae {{Perciformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Bleeker
Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the ''Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises'', his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia published between 1862 and 1877. Life and work Bleeker was born on 10 July 1819 in Zaandam. He was employed as a medical officer in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army from 1842 to 1860, (in French). stationed in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). During that time, he did most of his ichthyology work, besides his duties in the army. He acquired many of his specimens from local fishermen, but he also built up an extended network of contacts who would send him specimens from various government outposts throughout the islands. During his time in Indonesia, he collected well over 12,000 specimens, many of which currently reside at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden. Bleeker corresponded with Auguste Duméril of Paris. His wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plectorhinchus
''Plectorhinchus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae which is one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae which also includes the grunts. The species in this genus are found in fresh, brackish, and salt waters. Description and characteristics These fish have big, fleshy lips and tend to live on coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific in small groups or pairs. They will often associate with other fishes of similar species; several species of sweetlips sometimes swim together. They are usually seen in clusters in nooks and crannies or under overhangs. At nightfall, they venture from their shelters to seek out their bottom-dwelling invertebrate prey, such as bristleworms, shrimps, and small crabs. Sweetlips colouring and patterning changes throughout their lives. For example, ''Plectorhinchus polytaenia'' develops more stripes with age. Juvenile sweetlips generally look quite different from the adults, and often live soli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
