''Sudis hyalina'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of fish in the family

Paralepididae Barracudinas are any member of the marine mesopelagic fish family (biology), family Paralepididae: 50 or so extant species are found almost worldwide in deep waters. Several genera, including ''Holosteus'' and ''Drimys (fish), Drimys'', are kn ...

(barracudinas).

Name

Its specific name ''hyalina'' is from the Ancient Greek ὑάλῐνος (''hyalinos'', "crystal, glass"). It has no common name in English, but is known in Turkish as ''yalanci zargana'' ("false

garfish The garfish (''Belone belone''), also known as the garpike, needlefish or sea needle, is a pelagic, oceanodromous needlefish found in brackish and marine waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Black, and Baltic Seas. De ...

") or ''derin deniz turna baligi'' ("deep-sea pike") and in

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as ליסטים ארוך-סנפיר (''listim aroch-snapir'', "long-fin bandit"); this name refers to its long

pectoral fin Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish aquatic locomotion, swim. Apart from the tail or caudal fin, fish fins have no direct connection with the vertebral column ...

Description

''Sudis hyalina'' is elongated, maximum long, and silvery-pink in colour. It has large teeth in the lower jaw, fixed and armed with serrated edges. It has 59 or 60

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Habitat

''Sudis hyalina'' lives in the

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the ...

and

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...

. It is

mesopelagic The mesopelagic zone (Greek language, Greek μέσον, middle), also known as the middle pelagic or twilight zone, is the part of the pelagic zone that lies between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones. It is defined by light ...

bathypelagic The bathypelagic zone or bathyal zone (from Greek βαθύς (bathýs), deep) is the part of the open ocean that extends from a depth of below the ocean surface. It lies between the mesopelagic above and the abyssopelagic below. The bathypela ...

, living at .

Behaviour

''Sudis hyalina'' spawns near the surface in temperate to tropical waters. It is believed to be one of the fish responsible for chewing at

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References

Paralepididae Fish described in 1810 Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque {{Aulopiformes-stub