''Lepidotrigla guentheri'' is a species of marine, demersal ray-finned fish from the family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. It is found in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Taxonomy

''Lepidotrigla guentheri'' was first formally described in 1879 by the German zoologist and palaeontologist Franz Martin Hilgendorf with the

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given as Tokyo. The identity off the person honoured in the

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was not given by Hilgendorf but it is likely to be the

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 ...

and herpetologist Albert Günther of the British Museum (Natural History) who named the genus ''

Lepidotrigla ''Lepidotrigla'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. These gurnards are found in the Eastern Atlantic, Indian and Western Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Lepidotrigla'' was first desc ...

'' in 1860.

Description

''Lepidotrigla guentheri'' has between 7 and 9 spines, the second being elongated, in the first dorsal fin while both the second dorsal fin and the

anal 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 se ...

have 15 or 16 soft rays. There are 22-24 bucklers, bony plates, along either side of both dorsal fins. There are 14 fin rays in the pectoral fin. There is a projection on the snout which is made up of several spines if varying lengths. There is a large blackish-blue blotch, with white spots within it, on the lower half of the inner surface of the pectoral fins. The maximum published total length of this species is .

Distribution and habitat

Lepidotrigla guentheri is found in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean from Taiwan and the

East China Sea The East China Sea is an arm of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. It covers an area of roughly . The sea’s northern extension between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula is the Yellow Sea, separated b ...

north to Korea and Japan. It is a demersal fish found on sandy and muddy substrates along the edge of the continental shelf at depths between .

Biology

''Lepidotrigla guentheri'' feeds on the substrate and its diet is dominated by crustaceans particularly '' Leptochela sydniensis'', amphipods, and crabs, as well as small amounts of stomatopods, mysids,

cumaceans Cumacea is an order of small marine crustaceans of the superorder Peracarida, occasionally called hooded shrimp or comma shrimp. Their unique appearance and uniform body plan makes them easy to distinguish from other crustaceans. They live in so ...

, krill, polychaetes, and

copepods Copepods (; meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat. Some species are planktonic (inhabiting sea waters), some are benthic (living on the ocean floor), a number of species have p ...

. There is little variation in diet with age but smaller fishes consume a higher proportion of amphipods.

References

External links

* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q1852177 guentheri Taxa named by Franz Martin Hilgendorf Fish described in 1879