Brick seamoth

Brick wing Ross fish with a long rostrum (males)

The brick - wing Ross fish ( Pegasus laternarius ) is a small fish from the group of pipefish -like, the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Mannar ) and in the tropical western Pacific from the Gulf of Thailand on the South China Sea along the coast of southern China, around Taiwan and north to the Suruga Bay occurs on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshu in Japan. The fish live on mud floors, the larvae are planktonic. They are relatively rare, most commonly at depths of about 50 meters. From Japan a few sheltered, muddy regions are known in which they live between 30 and 100 meters water depth.

Features

The brick - wing Ross fish is eight inches long. Its coloration is variable and it can be dull colored to bright yellow or blue. The base is getting brighter. The rostrum is very short for juveniles and females, with the males longer. The top of the head is without deep pits. The rim of the eye sockets is scaleless. The eyes are obscured by the lower edge of the eye sockets at low angle. The body is oval and clearly deducted from the long tail fins stalk. He is by four pairs of dorsolateral ( located on the sides of the back) and five pairs of ventrolateral ( located on the sides of the abdomen ) armored bone plates. The only dorsal fin sits on the tail fins and handle, as well as the anal fin, five soft fin rays supported. The tail fins stem surrounded eleven or more bony rings, the first of which are movable relative to one another, during the ninth and tenth are grown together. The last bone ring of the tail fins stem has no sting on the back side. The pectoral fins are fan-shaped, the fifth dorsal spine much thicker than the other rays. The distal edge of the dorsal and anal fins is inclined to the horizontal axis of the body. The swirl number is 20