Armored searobin

Peristedion gracile

The Panzerknurrhähne ( Peristediidae ) live with 45 species in five genera in hot temperate and tropical regions of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Indo-Pacific in deep water.

Features

Panzerknurrhähne have a scaleless, but with four longitudinal rows of armored plates with strong bones body. The head is large with two fork-like front-facing excesses. The toothless mouth is inferior, with short barbels on the lips and two long, fringed chin barbels. The pectoral fins consist of only two free -rays, with which they can like the related gurnard ( Triglidae ) running on the ground. You have no venom glands.

The animals are seven to 70 inches long.

System

There are about 45 species in five genera:

  • Gargariscus Gargariscus prionocephalus ( Duméril, 1869).
  • Heminodus japonicus Mr. Kamohara, 1952.
  • Heminodus philippinus Smith, 1917.
  • Paraheminodus kamoharai Kawai, Imamura & Nakaya, 2004.
  • Paraheminodus murrayi ( Günther, 1880).
  • Peristedion altipinne Regan, 1903.
  • Peristedion amblygenys Fowler, 1938.
  • Peristedion antillarum Teague, 1961.
  • Peristedion barbiger Garman, 1899.
  • Peristedion brevirostre ( Günther, 1860).
  • Malarmat ( Peristedion cataphractum ) (Linnaeus, 1758).
  • Peristedion crustosum Garman, 1899.
  • Peristedion ecuadorense Teague, 1961.
  • Peristedion gracile Goode & Bean, 1896.
  • Peristedion greyae Miller, 1967.
  • Peristedion imberbe ( Poey, 1861).
  • Peristedion investigatoris ( Alcock, 1898).
  • Peristedion liorhynchus ( Günther, 1872).
  • Peristedion longispatha ( Goode & Bean, 1886).
  • Peristedion miniatum ( Goode, 1880).
  • Peristedion moluccense Bleeker, 1851.
  • Peristedion nierstraszi Weber, 1913.
  • Peristedion orientale ( Fowler, 1938).
  • Peristedion paucibarbiger Castro -Aguirre & Garcia- Dominguez, 1984.
  • Peristedion river sander soni ( Alcock, 1894).
  • Peristedion thompsoni Fowler, 1952.
  • Peristedion truncatum ( Günther, 1880).
  • Peristedion unicuspis Miller, 1967.
  • Peristedion weberi Smith, 1934.
  • Satyrichthys adenines ( Lloyd, 1907).
  • Satyrichthys amiscus ( Jordan & Starks, 1904).
  • Satyrichthys clavilapis Fowler, 1938.
  • Satyrichthys engyceros ( Günther, 1872).
  • Satyrichthys hians ( Gilbert & Cramer, 1897).
  • Satyrichthys isokawae Yatou & Okamura, 1985.
  • Satyrichthys kikingeri Pogoreutz et al., 2013.
  • Satyrichthys laticephalus Mr. Kamohara, 1952.
  • Satyrichthys lingi ( Whitley, 1933).
  • Satyrichthys longiceps ( Fowler, 1943).
  • Satyrichthys magnus Yatou, 1985.
  • Satyrichthys milleri Kawai, 2013.
  • Satyrichthys orientale ( Fowler, 1938).
  • Satyrichthys piercei Fowler, 1938.
  • Satyrichthys quadratorostratus ( Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979).
  • Satyrichthys rieffeli ( Kaup, 1859).
  • Satyrichthys serrulatus ( Alcock, 1898).
  • Satyrichthys welchi ( Herre, 1925).
Acanthomorpha Perciformes David Starr Jordan Charles Henry Gilbert Genus Barbel (anatomy) Charles Tate Regan Samuel Garman George Brown Goode Tarleton Hoffman Bean Felipe Poey Alfred William Alcock Pieter Bleeker Johann Jakob Kaup Joseph S. Nelson FishBase
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