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Triacanthodes anomalus

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Triacanthodes anomalus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Triacanthodidae
Genus: Triacanthodes
Species:
T. anomalus
Binomial name
Triacanthodes anomalus
(Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)
Synonyms
  • Triacanthus anomalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1850

Triacanthodes anomalus, the red spikefish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Triacanthodidae, the spikefishes. This species is found in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Taxonomy

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Triacanthodes anomalus was first formally described as Tricanthus anomalus in 1850 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Hermann Schlegel, with its type locality given as the entrance to Ōmura Bay in Nagasaki, Japan.[1] In 1857, Pieter Bleeker proposed the new monospecific genus Triacanthodes for T. anomalus and designated this species as its type species.[2] This genus is the type genus of the family Triacanthodidae and of the subfamily Triacanthodinae.[3] The fifth edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family Triacanthodidae in the suborder Triacanthoidei in the order Tetraodontiformes.[4]

Etymology

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Triacanthodes anomalus is classified in the genus Triacanthodes, a name which suffixes -odes, meaning "having the form of", onto Triacanthus, as it was though that this genus was closely related to Triacanthus. The specific name, anomalus, means "odd" or "irregular",[5] Temminck and Schlegel said that this species was "not quite modelled on the type" (n'est-pas tout-à-fait modelé sur la même type)[6] when compared to other species in the genus Triacanthus.[5]

Description

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Triacanthodes anomalus has an snout which is equal to or a little less in length than the diameter of the eye. The area between the eyes is thin, and is traight or slighly humped. The dorsal profile of the head between the mouth and the origin of the dorsal fin is straight. The large gill slet extends to belowthe lower margin of the pectoral fin base. There are two clear yellow stripes in life, one running from above the eye to end of the base of the soft rayed part of the dorsal fin and the other extends from the middle of the eye over the base of the pectoral fin the origin of the anal fin.[7] This species has a maximum standard length of 10 cm (3.9 in).[8][9]

Distribution and habitat

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Triacanthodes anomalus are demersal fish (ground fish) that inhabit the tropical marine waters of the South and East China Seas around Taiwan, the Japanese archipelago, and South Korea.[9][10] The species is found on the continental shelf and edge of the shelf in areas with sandy or sandy mud substrates.[11][9]

References

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  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Triacanthodes". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Triacanthodidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  3. ^ Franceso Santini; James C. Tyler (2003). "A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139 (4): 565–617. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00088.x.
  4. ^ Nelson, J.S.; Grande, T.C.; Wilson, M.V.H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 518–526. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. LCCN 2015037522. OCLC 951899884. OL 25909650M.
  5. ^ a b Christopher Scharpf (27 August 2024). "Order TETRAODONTIFORMES: Families TRIODONTIDAE, TRIACANTHIDAE, TRIACANTHODIDAE, DIODONTIDAE and TETRAODONTIDAE". Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
  6. ^ Temminck, C. J. and H. Schlegel (1850). "Pisces". In Siebold, P. F. de (ed.). Fauna Japonica, sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam ... suscepto annis 1823-1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Vol. 15. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: A. Arnz et soc. pp. 270–324.
  7. ^ Santini, Francesco (2003). Phylogeny and biogeography of the Triacanthodidae (Tetraodontiformes, Teleostei) (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  8. ^ Masuda, Hajime; Amaoka, K.; Uyeno, T.; Yoshino, T.; Masuda, Hajime (1985). The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago (Second ed.). Tokyo: Tokai University Press. p. 437. ISBN 4486050541.
  9. ^ a b c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Triacanthodes anomalus". FishBase. June 2024 version.
  10. ^ Matsuura, Keiichi (1 January 2015). "Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014". Ichthyological Research. 62 (1): 76. Bibcode:2015IchtR..62...72M. doi:10.1007/s10228-014-0444-5. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  11. ^ Yamada, U.; Shirai, S.; Irie, T.; Tokimura, M.; Deng, S.; Zheng, Y.; Li, C.; Kim, Y.U.; Kim, Y.S. (1995). Names and illustrations of fishes from the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation. p. 288.