Overview
Family : Filefishes ; Commercially cultured in Japan. Juveniles associate with drifting seaweed[1][2].
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Danish:
Sejlfilfisk
Common Names in English:
Thread-sail filefish, Threadsail filefish
Common Names in German:
Feilenfisch
Common Names in Japanese:
Kawahagi
Common Names in Korean:
쥐치
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
丝背细鳞鲀, 冠鱗單棘魨, 冠鳞单棘鲀, 絲背細鱗魨
Common Names in Portuguese:
Cangulo-de-vela
Description
Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,437 meters (0 to -17,838 feet).[3]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Order:
Tetraodontiformes
()
- Family:
ially cultured in Japan. Juveniles associate
wi
()
- Genus:
Stephanolepis
()
- Gill, 1861
- Specific name:
cirrhifer
- Scientific name: - Stephanolepis cirrhifer (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)
- Specific name:
cirrhifer
- Genus:
Stephanolepis
(
- Family:
ially cultured in Japan. Juveniles associate
wi
(
- Order:
Tetraodontiformes
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Synonyms
Monacanthus cirrhifer • Monacanthus cirrhifer Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 • Monacanthus cirrhifer Temminck & Schlegel • Stephanolepis cirrhifer • Stephanolepis cirrhifer (Schlegel 1850)
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name .
Similar Species
Members of the genus Stephanolepis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:
S. auratus (Porky) · S. cirrhifer (Thread-Sail Filefish) · S. diaspros (Reticulated Leatherjacket) · S. hispida (Planehead Fiiefish) · S. hispidus (Planehead Fiiefish) · S. melanocephalus (Straightsnout Filefish) · S. setifer (Speckled Filefish) · S. spilosomus (Fantail Filefish)
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Further Reading
- A catalog of the fishes known from the waters of Korea / by David Starr Jordan and Charles William Metz. Pittsburgh, : Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1913] url p. 44.
- A guide to the study of fishes, New York, H. Holt, 1905. url .
- A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905. url p. 415.
- Catalog of fossil fishes in the Carnegie Museum / by Charles R. Eastman. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1911-] url p. 446.
- Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url p. 225, p. 595.
- Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 194, p. 221, p. 223, p. 224, p. 243, p. 254, p. 301, p. 315, p. 84.
- Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. url p. 149, p. 395.
- Fishes, New York, H. Holt and Company, 1907. url .
- Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url p. 266, p. 44, p. 446.
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 54, p. 647, p. 649.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 672, p. 727.
- Record of fishes obtained in Japan in 1911, by David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1914 url p. 266.
- Record of the fishes obtained in Japan in 1911 / by David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1914] url p. 266.
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 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- Hutchins, Barry (from FishBase).
- 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 March 01, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
- GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
- Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 139153
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-23284
- Fishbase Species ID: 531
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13833609
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 646244
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 125384
Footnotes
- Safran, P. (1990). Drifting seaweed and associated ichthyofauna: floating nursery in Tohoku waters. La mer 28(4):225-239. [back]
- Safran, P. and M. Omori (1990). Some ecological observations on fishes associated with drifting seaweed off Tohoku coast, Japan. Mar. Biol. 105:395-402. [back]
- Mean = -85.420 meters (-280.249 feet), Standard Deviation = 653.560 based on 1,783 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Curator for this page: Barry Hutchins. Date last reviewed: 12/30/1899
