Lethrinus lentjan

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Emperors or scavengers ; Inhabits sandy bottoms in coastal areas, deep lagoons and near coral reefs[1]. Juveniles and small adults commonly in loose aggregations over seagrass beds , mangrove swamps and shallow sandy areas while adults are generally solitary in deeper waters. Feeds primarily on crustaceans and mollusks but echinoderms , polychaetes and fishes are also consumed in considerable quantities[2].

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 880 meters (0 to 2,887 feet).[3]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Bodianus lentjan Lacepède • Letherinus lentjanus (Lacepède • Letherinus leutjanus (Lacepède • Lethrinus argenteus Valenciennes • Lethrinus cinereus Valenciennes • Lethrinus cocosensis Bleeker • Lethrinus croceopterus Valenciennes • Lethrinus flavescens Valenciennes • Lethrinus fusciceps Macleay • Lethrinus geniguttatus Valenciennes • Lethrinus glyphodon Günther • Lethrinus mahsenoides Valenciennes • Lethrinus nubilis (Cantor • Lethrinus opercularis Valenciennes • Lethrinus virescens Valenciennes • Pentapodus nubilis Cantor

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 02-Jul-1993

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lethrinus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 37 species and subspecies in this genus:

L. amboinensis (Ambon Emperor) · L. atkinsoni (Pacific Yellowtail Emperor) · L. atlanticus (Atlantic Electric Ray) · L. borbonicus (Snubnose Emperor) · L. chrysostomus (Redmouthed Emperor) · L. cocosensis (Smith's Pigface Bream) · L. conchyliatus (Smith's Pigface Bream) · L. crocineus (Yellowtail Damselfish) · L. enigmaticus (Blackened Butterflyfish) · L. erythracanthus (Yellow-Spotted Chromis) · L. erythropterus (Tail-Saddled Emperor) · L. flavescens (Redfinned Emperor) · L. genivittatus (Lancer) · L. haematopterus (Japanese Scavenger) · L. harak (Black-Blotch Emperor) · L. haematopterus (Yelowspotted Emperor) · L. laticaudis (Brown Kelp-Fish) · L. lentjan (Bridled Pigface-Bream) · L. mahsena (Cutthroat Emperor) · L. mahseng (Kafue Killifish) · L. microdon (Longface Emperor) · L. miniatus (Emperor) · L. nebulosus (Blue Emperor) · L. nematacanthus (Lancer) · L. obsoletus (Orange Striped Emperor) · L. olivaceus (Pig Face Bream Emperor) · L. ornatus (Yellow-Striped Emperor) · L. punctulatus (Australian Devilray) · L. ramak (Yellowbanded Pigface Bream) · L. ravus (Drab Emperor) · L. reticulatus (Redsnout Emperor) · L. rubrioperculatus (Scarlet-Cheek Emperor) · L. semicinctus (Black Blotch Emperor) · L. striatus (Klunzinger's Emperor) · L. variegatus (Scavenger) · L. xanthochilus (Klunzinger´s Emperor) · L. olivaceus (Docked Snailfish)

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Further Reading

• Allen, G.R. and W.F. Smith-Vaniz (1994). Fishes of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Res. Bull. 412:21 p.
• Carpenter, K.E. and G.R. Allen (1989). FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 9. Emperor fishes and large-eye breams of the world (family Lethrinidae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of lethrinid species known to date. FAO Species Synop. No. 125(9):118 p
• Carpenter, Kent E. and Gerald R. Allen 1989. Emperor Fishes and Large-Eye Breams of the world (Family Lethrinidae): An annotated and illustrated catalogue of Lethrinid species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis (125), vol. 9. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome, Italy. 118. ISBN: 92-5-102889-3.
• Carpenter, Kent E., and Gerald R. Allen 1989. Emperor Fishes and Large-Eye Breams of the World (Family Lethrinidae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of Lethrinid species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Vol. 9. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome, Italy. 118. ISBN: 92-5-102889-3.
• Duong, T.T. (2001). Mot so loai ca thuong gap o bien Viet Nam (Viet Nam's Common Marine Fishes Catalogue). Ministry of Fisheries of Viet Nam - Fisheries Information Center of Viet Nam.
• Fricke, R. (1999). Fishes of the Mascarene Islands (Réunion, Mauritius, Rodriguez): an annotated checklist, with descriptions of new species. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein, Theses Zoologicae, Vol. 31: 759 p.
• Kailola, P.J., M.J. Williams, P.C. Stewart, R.E. Reichelt, A. McNee and C. Grieve (1993). Australian fisheries resources. Bureau of Resource Sciences, Canberra, Australia. 422 p.
• Kapoor, D., R. Dayal and A.G. Ponniah (2002). Fish biodiversity of India. National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources Lucknow, India.775 p.
• Kimura, S. (1995). A check list of the marine fishes collected around northern Palawan and Calauit islands, Philippines. p. 158-167. In Pawikan Conservation Project - PAWB, DENR, Philippines and Toba Aquarium, Japan. Dugongs Dugong dugon (Mülle
• Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino (1984). The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1 (text). Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p. (text), 370 pls.
• Ni, I-H and K-Y Kwok (1999). Marine fish fauna in Hong Kong waters. Zool. Stud. 38(2):130-152.
• Randall, J.E. (1995). Coastal fishes of Oman. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 439 p.
• Randall, J.E. and C. Anderson (1993). Annotated checklist of the epipelagic and shore fishes of the Maldives Islands. Ichthyol. Bull. of the J.L.B. Smith Inst. of Ichthyol. 59:47.
• Randall, J.E., H. Ida, K. Kato, R.L. Pyle and J.L. Earle (1997). Annotated checklist of inshore fishes of the Ogasawara Islands. Nat. Sci. Mus. Monogr. (11):1-74.
• Smith, A. and P. Dalzell (1993). Fisheries resources and management investigations in Woleai Atoll, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia. Inshore Fish. Res. Proj., Tech. Doc., South Pacific Commission. Noumea, New Caledonia. 64 p.
• Smith, M.M. (1986). Lethrinidae. p. 595-600. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Thollot, P. (1996). Les poissons de mangrove du lagon sud-ouest de Nouvelle-Calédonie. ORSTOM Éditions, Paris.
• U Hla Win (1987). Checklist of fishes of Burma. Ministry of Livestock Breeding and Fisheries, Department of Fisheries, Burma.
• Winterbottom, R. and R.C. Anderson (1997). A revised checklist of the epipelagic and shore fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean. Ichthyol. Bull. Smith. Inst. (66):1-28.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Thompson, Bruce (from FishBase).

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: AIMS - Baited Remote Underwater Video Station (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: AIMS LTM Fish (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bureau of Rural Sciences National commercial fisheries half-degree data set 2000-2002 (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: CSIRO Marine Data Warehouse (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3864137
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-23590
• Fishbase Species ID: 1863
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13837488
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 169148
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 115241

Footnotes

1. Sommer, C., W. Schneider and J.-M. Poutiers (1996). FAO species identification field guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of Somalia. FAO, Rome. 376 p. [back]
2. Carpenter, K.E. and G.R. Allen (1989). FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 9. Emperor fishes and large-eye breams of the world (family Lethrinidae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of lethrinid species known to date. FAO Species Synop. No. 125(9):118 p ... [back]
3. Mean = 72.000 meters (236.220 feet), Standard Deviation = 247.570 based on 234 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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