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Monocentris
''Monocentris'' is a genus of pinecone fishes native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...s. Species There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * '' Monocentris chrysadamas'' (Yo Su, Hsiu-Chin Lin, and Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2022) - diamond pineconefish * '' Monocentris japonica'' ( Houttuyn, 1782) - Japanese pineapplefish * '' Monocentris neozelanicus'' ( Powell, 1938) - Maori pineconefish * '' Monocentris reedi'' ( L. P. Schultz, 1956) - Reed's pineconefish References Monocentridae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider Taxa named by Marcus Elieser Bloch {{Beryciformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monocentris Japonica
''Monocentris japonica'', the Japanese pineapplefish, is a pinecone fish of the family Monocentridae Pinecone fishes are small and unusual marine fish of the family (biology), family Monocentridae. The family contains just five species in two genus, genera, one of which is monotypic. Their distribution is limited to tropical and subtropical wat ..., found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific Oceans, at depths between 2 and 100 m and can be found on both rocky and coral reefs. The fish is nocturnal and shelters in caves and under ledges during the day. Morphology The pineconefish is yellow with distinct large scutes outlined in black. It has light-producing organs filled with luminescent bacteria on each side of the lower jaw, the purpose of which is not known, but may help it to see at night or to attract prey. The fish grows to 17 cm, but is more commonly found up to 12 cm. Pinecone fish do not have scales, and are instead covered in scutes. Scutes are similar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monocentris Chrysadamas
''Monocentris'' is a genus of pinecone fishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Species There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * '' Monocentris chrysadamas'' (Yo Su, Hsiu-Chin Lin, and Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2022) - diamond pineconefish * ''Monocentris japonica ''Monocentris japonica'', the Japanese pineapplefish, is a pinecone fish of the family Monocentridae Pinecone fishes are small and unusual marine fish of the family (biology), family Monocentridae. The family contains just five species in tw ...'' ( Houttuyn, 1782) - Japanese pineapplefish * '' Monocentris neozelanicus'' ( Powell, 1938) - Maori pineconefish * ''Monocentris reedi'' (Leonard Peter Schultz, L. P. Schultz, 1956) - Reed's pineconefish References Monocentridae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider Taxa named by Marcus Elieser Bloch {{Beryciformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monocentris Neozelanicus
''Monocentris'' is a genus of pinecone fishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Species There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * ''Monocentris chrysadamas'' (Yo Su, Hsiu-Chin Lin, and Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2022) - diamond pineconefish * ''Monocentris japonica ''Monocentris japonica'', the Japanese pineapplefish, is a pinecone fish of the family Monocentridae Pinecone fishes are small and unusual marine fish of the family (biology), family Monocentridae. The family contains just five species in tw ...'' ( Houttuyn, 1782) - Japanese pineapplefish * '' Monocentris neozelanicus'' ( Powell, 1938) - Maori pineconefish * '' Monocentris reedi'' ( L. P. Schultz, 1956) - Reed's pineconefish References Monocentridae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider Taxa named by Marcus Elieser Bloch {{Beryciformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monocentris Reedi
''Monocentris reedi'' is a species of ray-finned fish within the family Monocentridae. The species is found in the southeastern Pacific near Chile off the Juan Fernández Islands, Nazca Ridge and the Desventuradas Islands, where it lives a demersal lifestyle inhabiting tide pools, caves, and deep rocky reefs at depths of 10 to 250 meters. It grows to lengths of 9.2 to 9.9 centimeters. ''Monocentris reedi'' has been assessed as a 'least concern' species by the IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological ... as despite its small and limited range, it has no known major threats. References {{Authority control Taxa named by Leonard Peter Schultz IUCN Red List least concern species Fish described in 1956 Monocentridae Fish of Chile Fish of the Pacific Ocean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinecone Fish
Pinecone fishes are small and unusual marine fish of the family Monocentridae. The family contains just five species in two genera, one of which is monotypic. Their distribution is limited to tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific. Pinecone fishes are popular subjects of public aquaria, but are both expensive and considered a challenge for the hobbyist to maintain. Description These fish are aptly named; their rounded, compressed bodies are completely covered (with the exception of the caudal peduncle) with very large, strong, platelike scales called scutes, which are fortified with prominent ridges. The first dorsal fin is composed of four to seven strong, disunited spines which vary in length; the second dorsal fin and anal fin are small, spineless and rounded, situated far back of the convex head. The pectoral fins are somewhat elongate and the caudal fin is truncate. Coloration is typically a yellow to orange, with the scales dramatically outlined in black. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monocentridae
Pinecone fishes are small and unusual marine fish of the family (biology), family Monocentridae. The family contains just five species in two genus, genera, one of which is monotypic. Their distribution is limited to tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific. Pinecone fishes are popular subjects of public aquaria, but are both expensive and considered a challenge for the hobbyist to maintain. Description These fish are aptly named; their rounded, compressed bodies are completely covered (with the exception of the caudal peduncle) with very large, strong, platelike scale (zoology), scales called scutes, which are fortified with prominent ridges. The first dorsal fin is composed of four to seven strong, disunited spines which vary in length; the second dorsal fin and anal fin are small, spineless and rounded, situated far back of the convex head. The pectoral fins are somewhat elongate and the caudal fin is truncate. Coloration is typically a yellow to orange, with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Elieser Bloch
Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799) was a German physician and naturalist who is best known for his contribution to ichthyology through his multi-volume catalog of plates illustrating the fishes of the world. Brought up in a Hebrew-speaking Jewish family, he learned German and Latin and studied anatomy before settling in Berlin as a physician. He amassed a large natural history collection, particularly of fish specimens. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century, and wrote many papers on natural history, comparative anatomy, and physiology. Life Bloch was born at Ansbach in 1723 where his father was a Torah writer and his mother owned a small shop. Educated at home in Hebrew literature he became a private tutor in Hamburg for a Jewish surgeon. Here he learned German, Latin and anatomy. He then studied medicine in Berlin and received a doctorate in 1762 from Frankfort on the Oder with a treatise on skin disorders. He then became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Gottlob Schneider
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (18 January 1750 – 12 January 1822) was a German classicist and naturalist. Biography Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony. In 1774, on the recommendation of Christian Gottlob Heine, he became secretary to the famous Strasbourg scholar Richard François Brunck, and in 1811, became professor of ancient languages and eloquence at Breslau (chief librarian, 1816) where he died in 1822. Works Of his numerous works the most important was his ''Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch'' (1797–1798), the first independent work of the kind since Stephanus's ''Thesaurus'', and the basis of F. Passow's and all succeeding Greek lexicons (including, therefore, the contemporary standard ''A Greek-English Lexicon''). A special improvement was the introduction of words and expressions connected with natural history and science. In 1801, he corrected and expanded re-published Marcus Elieser Bloch's ''Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. Phylogeneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia (continent), Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by the Southern Ocean or Antarctica, depending on the definition in use. The Indian Ocean has large marginal or regional seas, including the Andaman Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Laccadive Sea. Geologically, the Indian Ocean is the youngest of the oceans, and it has distinct features such as narrow continental shelf, continental shelves. Its average depth is 3,741 m. It is the warmest ocean, with a significant impact on global climate due to its interaction with the atmosphere. Its waters are affected by the Indian Ocean Walker circulation, resulting in unique oceanic currents and upwelling patterns. The Indian Ocean is ecologically diverse, with important ecosystems such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. At in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), the Pacific Ocean is the largest division of the World Ocean and the hydrosphere and covers approximately 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of the planet's total surface area, larger than its entire land area ().Pacific Ocean . ''Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica Concise.'' 2008: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The centers of both the Land and water hemispheres, water hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere, as well as the Pole of inaccessi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martinus Houttuyn
Maarten Houttuyn or Houttuijn (1720 – 2 May 1798; Latinised as Martinus Houttuyn) was a Dutch naturalist. Houttuyn was born in Hoorn, studied medicine in Leiden and moved to Amsterdam in 1753. He published many books on natural history, e.g. ''Natuurlyke Historie of uitvoerige Beschryving der Dieren, Planten en Mineraalen, volgens het Samenstel van den Heer Linnaeus'', in 37 volumes (1761-1773), following Carl Linnaeus' division into the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, and the mineral kingdom. His areas of interest encompassed Pteridophytes, Bryophytes and Spermatophytes. He died in Amsterdam. In botanical nomenclature, the standard author abbreviation ''Houtt.'' is applied to plants described by him. He is commemorated by the genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
