genus
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of marine
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species.
The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...
es belonging to the
family
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Triglidae
Triglidae, commonly known as gurnards or sea robins, are a family of bottom-feeding scorpaeniform ray-finned fish. The gurnards are distributed in temperate and tropical seas worldwide.
Taxonomy
Triglidae was first described as a family in 181 ...
, the gurnards and sea robins. These gurnards are found in the Eastern Atlantic, Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.
Taxonomy
''Lepidotrigla'' was first described as a genus in 1860 by the German-born British
herpetologist
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Albert Günther
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with ''Trigla aspera'', which had been described in 1829 from the Mediterranean Sea by
Georges Cuvier
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, as the
type species
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Triglinae
Triglinae is a subfamily of demersal, marine ray-finned fishes, part of the family Triglidae, the gurnards and searobins. These gurnards are found in all the tropical and temperate oceans of the world except for the Western Atlantic Ocean.
Taxonom ...
, the nominate subfamily of the family Triglidae. The genus name prefixes '' Trigla'', the type genus of the Triglidae. with ''lepido'', "scaled", a reference to the larger scales on these gurnards in comparison to those on ''Trigla''.
Regan
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, 1908
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Lepidotrigla annamarae
''Lepidotrigla'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. These gurnards are found in the Eastern Atlantic, Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.
Taxonomy
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del Cerro
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Richards
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In places:
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In other uses:
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Kauffman
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Prokofiev
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Lepidotrigla kishinouyi
''Lepidotrigla kishinouyi'', the devil sea robin, 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 kishinouyi'' was fi ...
Lepidotrigla lepidojugulata
''Lepidotrigla'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. These gurnards are found in the Eastern Atlantic, Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.
Taxonomy
''Lepidotrigl ...
Gomon
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Kawai
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''Lepidotrigla'' gurnards are characterised by having the 3 lower rays of the pectoral fin free of the fin membrane and a scaled tail, like the other Triglid gurnards. The bucklers, bony plate at the base of the dorsal fin spines and rays, have with sharp spines on their rears along the whole length of both first and seconddorsal fins. The groobe behin the eyes of these fishes may be complete, running from one side of the head to the other, or there may be just a furrow behind each eye. There are large,
ctenoid scale
A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish. The skin of most jawed fishes is covered with these protective scales, which can also provide effective camouflage through the use of reflection and colouration, as w ...
s on the body, although some species have
cycloid scale
A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish. The skin of most jawed fishes is covered with these protective scales, which can also provide effective camouflage through the use of reflection and colouration, as w ...
s on the belly. There are fewer tha than 70 scales in the lateral line. There may, or may not be
vomerine teeth
The vomer (; lat, vomer, lit=ploughshare) is one of the unpaired facial bones of the skull. It is located in the midsagittal line, and articulates with the sphenoid, the ethmoid, the left and right palatine bones, and the left and right maxill ...
. These relatively small grnards vary in size from the smallest, the spotwing gurnard (''L. spiloptera'') with a maximum published
total length
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology.
Overall length
* Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish ...
of , to the scalebreast gurnard (''L. cadmani'') and ''L. microptera'', both having maximum published total length of .
Distribution
''Lepidotrigla'' gurnards are found in the tropical and warm temperate waters of the eastern Atlantic, Indian and Western Pacific Oceans, with one species ''L. jimjoebob'' being found as far east as the Line Islands in the eastern central Pacific.