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Blackfin Barracuda
The Blackfin barracuda (''Sphyraena qenie''), also known as the Chevron barracuda, is a species of barracuda that ranges from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Indo-Pacific, Indo and Western Pacific Ocean, Western Pacific and as far as French Polynesia. The blackfin barracuda reaches a maximum size of 140 cm. They are typically encountered on coral reefs down to 50 m where they form large schools. The Blackfin barracuda are known for their long black lateral bands that go around its body. There are about 18 to 22 bands that are on the fish's body. They have elongated last rays on the second dorsal fin and anal fins and a blackish caudal fin (tail fin). They lack gill rakers. Morishita, S. (2020). Morphological comparisons of Sphyraena qenie with S. putnamae, with a revised key to Indo-Pacific species of Sphyraena lacking gill rakers (Sphyraenidae). Ichthyological Research, 67(3), 456–463. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-020-00738-6 References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Benjamin Klunzinger
Carl Benjamin Klunzinger (18 November 1834, in Güglingen – 21 June 1914, in Stuttgart) was a German physician and zoologist. He studied medicine at the Universities of Tübingen and Würzburg, afterwards attending lectures on geology and zoology in Vienna and Prague. In 1862 he traveled to Cairo, where he spent eighteen months learning Arabic. Beginning in February 1864 he worked as a physician at Kosseir, a seaport on the Red Sea. Here he spent five years collecting a vast quantity of fish and other marine specimens. From 1869 he examined his Red Sea collection at the '' Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart'', traveling to Frankfurt and Berlin in order to conduct zoological comparison studies. At Stuttgart he also investigated Australian fish species procured by Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-1896), from whose collection Klunzinger described approximately fifty new species from Australia and New Zealand. In 1872 he was back in Kosseir collecting additional marine s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
