Bonefishes

Albula vulpes

The bonefish ( Albulidae ) are a comprehensive eleven species in two genera of the family bonefish. You stand alone in the order of the bones Fishy ( Albuliformes ).

Features

Bonefish have an elongated occupied with silvery white body cycloid scales. The head is scaleless and deposed by a ring large shed by the body. The muzzle is pointed and inferior in the genus Albula. The swim bladder is large and can be used for air breathing. Bonefish pelagic life in the sea, rarely in brackish and fresh water. They feed on benthic invertebrates. Bonefish are known through fossils from the Cretaceous period already.

Its larval form that Leptocephaluslarve, show that they are related to the eel-like ( Anguilliformes ). They live mainly in the sea, but also in brackish and fresh water in the tropics. Its maximum length is 1 meter.

Inside systematics

The bones of the fish family is divided into two sub-families, each mono generic, that is, they contain only one species.

Subfamily Albulinae

The species of the subfamily Albulinae have a short dorsal fin base, the dorsal fin has 16 to 21 fin rays. The number of gill Reuse rays at 15 to 17, to 16, the gill region is protected from the bottom in addition by a narrow, centrally positioned Kehl- bone plate ( Gularia ) the Branchiostegalstrahlen at 10. The maxilla and tongue toothless. On the parasphenoid to find molars. Dandruff formula: SL 66-84, 69-80 vertebrae.

  • Genus Albula Albula argentea (Schneider, 1801).
  • Albula esuncula ( Garman 1899).
  • Albula forsteri ( Valenciennes ), 1847.
  • Albula glossodonta ( Forsskål 1775).
  • Albula koreana Kwun & Kim, 2011.
  • Albula Nemoptera ( Fowler, 1911).
  • Albula neoguinaica ( Valenciennes, 1847).
  • Albula oligolepis Hidaka, Iwatsuki & Randall, 2008.
  • Albula virgata Jordan & Jordan, 1922.
  • Albula vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758).

Subfamily Pterothrissinae

The species of the subfamily Pterothrissinae have a long dorsal fin base, the dorsal fin has 55 to 65 fin rays. The number of Branchiostegalstrahlen is six. An additional Kehl- bone plate ( Gularia ) is missing. Each maxilla is staffed with six to seven teeth. Dandruff formula: SL 85-112, 107 vertebrae.

  • Pterothrissus genus ( syn. Istieus Agassiz 1844, fossil). Pterothrissus belloci ( Cadenat, 1937).
  • Pterothrissus gissu Hilgendorf, 1877.
Teleostei Taxonomic rank#All ranks Elopomorpha George S. Myers Pieter Bleeker Osteichthyes Amphibious fish Monotypic taxon Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider Achille Valenciennes HMS Challenger (1858) Challenger-Expedition Joseph S. Nelson FishBase Integrated Authority File
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