''Sudis hyalina'' is a
species of fish in the family
Paralepididae
Barracudinas are any member of the marine mesopelagic fish family Paralepididae: 50 or so extant species are found almost worldwide in deep waters. Several genera are known only from fossils dating back to the Ypresian epoch.
The generic name ...
(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
Turkish may refer to:
*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
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*** Turkish communities and mi ...
as ''yalanci zargana'' ("false
garfish") or ''derin deniz turna baligi'' ("deep-sea
pike
Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to:
Fish
* Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus''
* Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes
* ''Esox'', genus of ...
") and in
Hebrew as ליסטים ארוך-סנפיר (''listim aroch-snapir'', "long-fin bandit"); this name refers to its long
pectoral fins.
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
vertebrae.
Habitat
''Sudis hyalina'' lives in the
Atlantic Ocean and
Mediterranean Sea. It is
mesopelagic to
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 bathypelagic ...
, living at .
Behaviour
''Sudis hyalina''
spawns
Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals. As a verb, ''to spawn'' refers to the process of releasing the eggs and sperm, and the act of both sexes is called spawning. Most aquatic animals, except for aquat ...
near the surface in temperate to tropical waters.
It is believed to be one of the fish responsible for chewing at
submarine communications cable
A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried tel ...
.
References
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Paralepididae
Fish described in 1810
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque