genus
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of marine
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...
es belonging to the
family
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Triglidae
''Triglidae'', commonly known as gurnards or sea robins, are a Family (biology), family of bottom-feeding scorpaeniform ray-finned fish. The gurnards are distributed in temperate and tropical seas worldwide.
Taxonomy
''Triglidae'' was first des ...
, the gurnards and sea robins. These gurnards are found in the Eastern Atlantic, Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.
Taxonomy
''Lepidotrigla'' was first described as a genus in 1860 by the German-born British
herpetologist
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and
ichthyologist
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 35,800 species of fish had been described as of March 2 ...
Albert Günther
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with ''Trigla aspera'', which had been described in 1829 from the Mediterranean Sea by
Georges Cuvier
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, as the
type species
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. The genus is
classified
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within the
subfamily
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Triglinae
Triglinae is a subfamily of demersal, marine ray-finned fishes, part of the family Triglidae, the gurnards and searobins. These gurnards are found in all the tropical and temperate oceans of the world except for the Western Atlantic Ocean.
Taxono ...
, the nominate subfamily of the family Triglidae. The genus name prefixes ''
Trigla
The piper gurnard (''Trigla lyra''), also known as the piper or the lyre gurnard, is a species of marine, demersal ray-finned fish from the family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. It is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterran ...
'', the type genus of the Triglidae. with ''lepido'', "scaled", a reference to the larger scales on these gurnards in comparison to those on ''Trigla''.
Characteristics
''Lepidotrigla'' gurnards are characterised by having the 3 lower rays of the pectoral fin free of the fin membrane and a scaled tail, like the other Triglid gurnards. The bucklers, bony plate at the base of the dorsal fin spines and rays, have with sharp spines on their rears along the whole length of both first and seconddorsal fins. The groobe behind the eyes of these fishes may be complete, running from one side of the head to the other, or there may be just a furrow behind each eye. There are large,
ctenoid scale
A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish. The skin of most jawed fishes is covered with these protective scales, which can also provide effective camouflage through the use of reflection and colouration, as w ...
s on the body, although some species have
cycloid scale
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s on the belly. There are fewer tha than 70 scales in the
lateral line
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. There may, or may not be
vomerine teeth
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. These relatively small grnards vary in size from the smallest, the spotwing gurnard (''L. spiloptera'') with a maximum published
total length
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Overall length
Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish measured f ...
of , to the scalebreast gurnard (''L. cadmani'') and ''L. microptera'', both having maximum published total length of .
Distribution
''Lepidotrigla'' gurnards are found in the tropical and warm temperate waters of the eastern Atlantic, Indian and Western Pacific Oceans, with one species ''L. jimjoebob'' being found as far east as the
Line Islands
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in the eastern central Pacific.
Species
''Lepidotrigla'' is the most speciose genus in the Triglidae and has 58 species classified within it:
* ''
Lepidotrigla abyssalis
''Lepidotrigla'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. These gurnards are found in the Eastern Atlantic, Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.
Taxonomy
''Lepidotrigla'' was first desc ...
''
D. S. Jordan
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Lepidotrigla alata
''Lepidotrigla'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. These gurnards are found in the Eastern Atlantic, Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.
Taxonomy
''Lepidotrigl ...
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Richards
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Steindachner
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Lepidotrigla cavillone
The large-scaled gurnard (''Lepidotrigla cavillone'') is a species of marine, demersal ray-finned fish from the Family (biology), family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. It is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Matsubara
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Lepidotrigla kishinouyi
''Lepidotrigla kishinouyi'', the devil sea robin, is a species of marine, demersal ray-finned fish from the family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. It is found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
''Lepidotrigla kishinouyi'' was fi ...
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Gomon
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J. L. B. Smith
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Lepidotrigla russelli
''Lepidotrigla'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. These gurnards are found in the Eastern Atlantic, Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.
Taxonomy
''Lepidotrigla'' was first desc ...
List of prehistoric bony fish
This list of prehistoric bony fish is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be bony fish (class Osteichthyes), excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includ ...