Plesiops coeruleolineatus

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

Overview

Family : Roundheads ; Minimum depth reported from Ref. 30874. Found under stone or corals in flood basins and lagoons [1]. Common but very secretive and usually found when turning rubble pieces in pools [2]. It ventures out in the open at night to feed on small crustaceans, fishes and gastropods [3].

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,737 meters (0 to -22,103 feet).[4]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Pharopteryx melas (Bleeker • Pharopteryx semeion (Tanaka • Plesiops caeruleolineatus Rüppell • Plesiops corallicola Bleeker • Plesiops melas Bleeker • Plesiops nigricans apoda Kner • Plesiops nigricans< /i> (R�ppell • Plesiops semeion Tanaka • Plesiops welas Bleeker • Pseudochromichthys riukianus Schmidt

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Rüppell, E. Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig, entdeckt und beschrieben. Amphibien. S. Schmerber, Frankfurt a. M. , 1835.

Comment: Originally coeruleo-lineatus[5].

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 16-Jan-1997

Similar Species

Members of the genus Plesiops

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. altivelis (Marine Betta) · P. bleekeri (Eastern Blue Devil) · P. caeruleolineatus (Red-Tipped Prettyfin) · P. coeruleolineatus (Banded Devilfish) · P. corallicola (Bluegill Longfin) · P. genaricus (Cheekveil Longfin) · P. gracilis (Threadfin Longfin) · P. insularis (Spotted Longfin) · P. meleagris (Blue Devil) · P. multisquamata (Spotted Longfin) · P. mystaxus (Moustache Longfin) · P. nigricans (Whitespotted Longfin) · P. oxycephalus (Sharp-Nosed Longfin) · P. semeion (Eastern Sand Darter) · P. verecundus (Redtip Longfin)

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Further Reading

• Report on a collection of marine fishes from North Borneo. 36 1957 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 366.
• Revision, phylogeny, and discussion of biology and biogeography of the fish genus Plesiops (Perciformes: Plesiopidae) / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, c1995. url , p. 1, p. 106, p. 18, p. 2, p. 20, p. 22, p. 23, p. 24, p. 29, p. 31, p. 46, p. 54, p. 55, p. 57, p. 62, p. 63, p. 65, p. 68, p. 69, p. 70, p. 72, p. 74, p. 75, p. 76, p. 81, p. 83, p. 96, p. 97, p. 98, p. 99.
• The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 298.
• The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 311.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed June 01, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 15, 2007:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Bishop Museum Data
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, MCZ Fish Collection
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
• Senckenberg, Collection Pisces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3864634
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-32626
• Fishbase Species ID: 8005
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13539152
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 645488
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 121080

Footnotes

1. Masuda, H. and G.R. Allen (1993). Meeresfische der Welt - Groß-Indopazifische Region. Tetra Verlag, Herrenteich, Melle. 528 p. [back]
2. Kuiter, R. H. and Tonozuka (2001). Pictorial guide to Indonesian reef fishes. Part 1. Eels- Snappers, Muraenidae - Lutjanidae. Zoonetics, Australia. 302 p. [back]
3. Myers, R.F. (1999). Micronesian reef fishes: a comprehensive guide to the coral reef fishes of Micronesia, 3rd revised and expanded edition. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 330 p. [back]
4. Mean = -1,383.530 meters (-4,539.140 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,670.990 based on 619 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
5. Eschmeyer, W.N., Editor (1999). Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of November 1999. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in November 1999. [back]

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