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Wormfish
Wormfishes were a subfamily, Microdesminae, which are formerly classified in the family Microdesmidae and are also currently classified, with no intervening rank, in the family Gobiidae and the order Gobiiformes. They are found in shallow tropical waters, both marine and brackish, often burrowing in estuarine mud Bay mud consists of thick deposits of soft, unconsolidated silty clay, which is saturated with water; these soil layers are situated at the bottom of certain estuaries, which are normally in temperate regions that have experienced cyclical glaci .... They are small fishes, the largest species reaching only about 12 cm in length. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q16941185 Microdesmidae Gobiidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerdale
''Cerdale'' is a genus of wormfishes native to the western Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen .... Species There are currently five recognized species in this genus: * '' Cerdale fasciata'' C. E. Dawson, 1974 * '' Cerdale floridana'' Longley, 1934 (Pugjaw wormfish) * '' Cerdale ionthas'' D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882 (Spotted worm goby) * '' Cerdale paludicola'' C. E. Dawson, 1974 * '' Cerdale prolata'' C. E. Dawson, 1974 References Microdesmidae Gobiidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Taxa named by Charles Henry Gilbert {{Gobiidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarkichthys
The flagtail wormfish (''Clarkichthys bilineatus'') is a species of wormfish native to the Pacific coast of the Americas from Mexico to Colombia as well as the Galápagos Islands. It is an inhabitant of tide pools and reefs being found down to a depth of about . This species grows to a length of SL. This species is the only known member of its genus. The generic name is a compound noun made up of the surname Clark, to honour the American ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ... H. Walton Clark (1870-1941) who described the species and ''ichthys'' the Greek for "fish". References Microdesmidae flagtail wormfish Fish of Mexican Pacific coast Western Central American coastal fauna Galápagos Islands coastal fauna Fish described in 1936 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnellichthys
''Gunnellichthys'' is a genus of wormfishes native to the Indian Ocean to the central Pacific Ocean. Species There are currently seven recognized species in this genus: * '' Gunnellichthys copleyi'' (J. L. B. Smith, 1951) * '' Gunnellichthys curiosus'' C. E. Dawson, 1968 (Curious wormfish) * '' Gunnellichthys grandoculis'' ( Kendall & Goldsborough, 1911) * '' Gunnellichthys irideus'' J. L. B. Smith, 1958 * '' Gunnellichthys monostigma'' J. L. B. Smith, 1958 (Onespot wormfish) * '' Gunnellichthys pleurotaenia'' Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher"). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microdesmus
''Microdesmus'' is a genus of wormfishes native to the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Species There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus: * '' Microdesmus aethiopicus'' ( Chabanaud, 1927) (Chabanaud's wormfish) * '' Microdesmus affinis'' Meek & Hildebrand, 1928 (Olivaceous wormfish) * '' Microdesmus africanus'' C. E. Dawson, 1979 (West African wormfish) * ''Microdesmus bahianus'' C. E. Dawson, 1973 (Bahia wormfish) * ''Microdesmus carri'' C. R. Gilbert, 1966 (Stippled wormfish) * ''Microdesmus dipus'' Günther, 1864 (Banded worm goby) * ''Microdesmus dorsipunctatus'' C. E. Dawson, 1968 (Spotback wormfish) * ''Microdesmus hildebrandi'' Reid, 1936 (Dark-tailed worm goby) * ''Microdesmus intermedius'' Meek & Hildebrand, 1928 (Long-tailed worm goby) * '' Microdesmus knappi'' C. E. Dawson, 1972 (Colombian wormfish) * '' Microdesmus lanceolatus'' C. E. Dawson, 1962 (Lancetail wormfish) * ''Microdesmus longipinnis'' ( Weymouth, 1910) (Pink wormfish) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragunnellichthys with a third recognised by other authorities:
* '' Paragunnellichthys fehlmanni'' C.E. Dawson, 1969
* '' Paragunnellichthys seychellensis'' C.E. Dawson, 1969 (Seychelles wormfish)
* '' ''Paragunnellichthys'' is a genus of wormfishes native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Species There are currently two recognized species in this genus on Fishbase FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microdesmidae
The Microdesmidae, the wormfishes and dartfishes, were a family of goby-like fishes in the order Gobiiformes, more recent workers have placed this taxon within the Gobiidae, although the researchers do not define the taxonomic status of this grouping within that family. Two subfamilies in this family were briefly treated as full families - the Ptereleotrinae (dartfishes) and Microdesminae (wormfishes). The family includes about 82 species. They are found in shallow tropical waters, both marine and brackish, often burrowing in estuarine mud Bay mud consists of thick deposits of soft, unconsolidated silty clay, which is saturated with water; these soil layers are situated at the bottom of certain estuaries, which are normally in temperate regions that have experienced cyclical glacia .... They are small fish, the largest species reaching only about 12 cm in length. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q1093168 Gobiiformes Obsolete animal taxa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gobiidae
Gobiidae or gobies is a family of bony fish in the order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. Most of gobiid fish are relatively small, typically less than in length, and the family includes some of the smallest vertebrates in the world, such as '' Trimmatom nanus'' and ''Pandaka pygmaea'', ''Trimmatom nanus'' are under long when fully grown, then ''Pandaka pygmaea'' standard length are , maximum known standard length are . Some large gobies can reach over in length, but that is exceptional. Generally, they are benthic or bottom-dwellers. Although few are important as food fish for humans, they are of great significance as prey species for other commercially important fish such as cod, haddock, sea bass and flatfish. Several gobiids are also of interest as aquarium fish, such as the dartfish of the genus ''Ptereleotris''. Phylogenetic relationships of gobiids have been studied using molecular data. Descript ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gobiiformes
The Gobiiformes are an order of fish that includes the gobies and their relatives. The order, which was previously considered a suborder of Perciformes, is made up of about 2,211 species that are divided between seven families. Phylogenetic relationships of the Gobiiformes have been elucidated using molecular data. Gobiiforms are primarily small species that live in marine water, but roughly 10% of these species inhabit fresh water. This order is composed chiefly of benthic or burrowing species; like many other benthic fishes, most gobiiforms do not have a gas bladder or any other means of controlling their buoyancy in water, so they must spend most of their time on or near the bottom. Gobiiformes means "Goby-like". Families The 5th Edition of the '' Fishes of the World'' reclassified the former superfamily Goboidei as the order Gobiiformes and also rearranged the families within the order compared to the previous edition. The largest change is that the Oxudercidae and the Gobii ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to as the tropical zone and the torrid zone (see geographical zone). In terms of climate, the tropics receive sunlight that is more direct than the rest of Earth and are generally hotter and wetter as they aren't affected as much by the solar seasons. The word "tropical" sometimes refers to this sort of climate in the zone rather than to the geographical zone itself. The tropical zone includes deserts and snow-capped mountains, which are not tropical in the climatic sense. The tropics are distinguished from the other climatic and biomatic regions of Earth, which are the middle latitudes and the polar regions on either side of the equatorial zone. The tropics constitute 40% of Earth's surface area and contain 36% of Earth's landmass. , the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine (ocean)
The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water. An ocean can also refer to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided."Ocean." ''Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary'', Merriam-Webster, |
Brackish
Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers. The word comes from the Middle Dutch root '' brak''. Certain human activities can produce brackish water, in particular civil engineering projects such as dikes and the flooding of coastal marshland to produce brackish water pools for freshwater prawn farming. Brackish water is also the primary waste product of the salinity gradient power process. Because brackish water is hostile to the growth of most terrestrial plant species, without appropriate management it is damaging to the environment (see article on shrimp farms). Technically, brackish water contains between 0.5 and 30 grams of salt per litre—more often expressed as 0.5 to 30 parts per thousand (‰), which is a specific grav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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