Zabidius novaemaculeatus
(No common name)Taxonomy
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
(Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum: Chordata
Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass: Osteichthyes
Huxley, 1880 - Bony Fishes
- Class: Actinopterygii
Cope 1887 - Ray-Finned Fishes
- Order: Perciformes
- Perch-like Fishes
- Suborder: Acanthuroidei
- Surgeonfishes
- Series: Percomorpha
- Family: Ephippidae
- Spadefishes, Batfishes and Scats
- Genus: Zabidius
- Specific name: novaemaculeatus
- Scientific name: Zabidius novaemaculeatus
- Specific name: novaemaculeatus
- Genus: Zabidius
- Family: Ephippidae
- Spadefishes, Batfishes and Scats
- Series: Percomorpha
- Suborder: Acanthuroidei
- Surgeonfishes
- Order: Perciformes
- Perch-like Fishes
- Class: Actinopterygii
Cope 1887 - Ray-Finned Fishes
- Superclass: Osteichthyes
Huxley, 1880 - Bony Fishes
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
- Phylum: Chordata
Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
(Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
Physical Description
Family Ephippidae:
Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific; marine, rarely brackish. Anal fin with 3 spines. Compressed laterally and deep-bodied. Mouth small; vomer or palatines toothless; comblike series of large blunt gill rakers on first epibranchial. Omnivores of algae and small invertebrates. Thought to be pelagic spawners. Juveniles of Platax species are popular and unproblematic aquarium species, but grow very fast.
The family Ephippidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) and the Order Perciformes. It contains 7 genera and 20 species. It may be found in Marine and Brackish environments and is primarily Marine. Some members of this family are used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are nonguarders. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is labriform. Members of this family have been dated back to the lower Eocene epoch of the Tertiary period. Etymology of this family name: Latin, ephippium = that is for putting on a horse, similar in shape to a depression of the sphenoid bone; 1841
Distribution
Similar Species
Members of the genus Zabidius:
There are approximately 3 species in this genus.: Z. novaemaculeatus · Z. novemaculatus · Z. novemaculeatus (Ninespine Batfish)
Members of the genus Yuanophyllum:
There are approximately 2 species in this genus.: Y. kansuense · Y. pauciseptatum
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Notes
Contributors:
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 25, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
Data Sources:
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