dussumieria elopsoides bleeker, 1849
Alias: round belly herring dussumieria hasseltii bleeker, 1849
Local Name: pipefish (Dongshan, Xiamen), beak 鰛 (Xiamen)
English name: slender rainbow sardine, slender rainbow round herring
Taxonomic status: Osteichthyes osteichthyes, herring-shaped head clupeiformes, clupeid clupeidae
Dorsal fin 19-20; anal 16-17; pectoral 14-15; pelvic fins 8. 54-56 scales column, row scales 13. Gill rakers 13-14 +25-28.
Body length 4.6 times higher for the body, head length 3.9 times. Head length to snout length 2.9-3.2 times the eye diameter 4.4 times, 4.9 times the interval for the eye. Caudal peduncle length of caudal peduncle 1.2 times higher.
Spindle length, a little side of the flat, blunt abdomen, shuttleless scales. The head large, conical, flat side, flat head, but the interval from the snout to the eye with a low uplift shuttle. Long and sharp kiss, kiss grew up in the eye diameter. Eyes large, less than snout length, on the lateral. 2 nostrils on each side, bit close to snout. Mouth large, the first place. On the lower jaw about equal length. With two tapered jaw teeth, jaw bone, wing bone with villous teeth vomer toothless. Left gills tectorial membrane separation, not to isthmus. Gill cover 15. Gill rakers slender, under the gill rakers 25-28. Anus near the anal fin. Scales round the body is thin and easy to fall off. No lateral line.
Dorsal side later in the middle of the body, from the pitch from the snout to caudal fin base than near. Anal fin base short, starting in the pelvic fin origin and caudal fin base midpoint. Pectoral fins short, the next lateral. Pelvic fins below the starting point after the dorsal fin. Caudal fin deeply forked.
Green yellow body on the back, side of the body and abdomen silvery white. Gray-blue head, the central part along the side of the body with a golden luster of the longitudinal band. Dorsal fin yellow, green, gray and black front and on the edge. Caudal fin green yellow, thick black trailing edge. Pectoral fins, pelvic fins, anal fin pale.
Herring, round belly is warm water pelagic fish, is common along the coast of Fujian. Hi habitat in coastal bays and islands nearby, feeding zooplankton, there is a strong phototaxis. Body length is usually 150-200 mm. To catch the light of the secondary fence.
I made the South China Sea, Taiwan Strait and East China Sea. |
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