Minous

Minous versicolor

The holly fish ( Minou ) are a genus of stonefish ( Synanceiidae ). They come in depths of 10-420 meters in front of sandy and muddy seabeds in the tropical Indo-Pacific.

Features

Lancing fish are 7.5 to 15 cm long. Your body is smooth and without spines or skin appendages. The bottom fin rays of their pectoral fins are isolated from the other eleven fin rays and can be used to "walk" along the sea floor on the type of gurnard to. Your tips are provided for this purpose with peculiar "caps". The dorsal fin is supported 8-12 spines and 10 to 14 soft rays (with a Type 4 spines and 18 soft rays ). The anal fin has two spines and 7-11 soft rays, the ventrals one spine and five soft rays. All soft rays are undivided. The number of vertebrae is 24 to 27 A swim bladder may be present or absent.

Species

Fishbase lists twelve species:

  • Minous andriashevi Mandrytsa, 1990
  • Minous coccineus Alcock, 1890
  • Minous dempsterae Eschmeyer, Hall Acher & Rama Rao, 1979
  • Minous inermis Alcock, 1889
  • Minous longimanus Regan, 1908
  • Minous Monodactylus ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
  • Minous pictus Günther, 1880
  • Minous pusillus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843
  • Minous quincarinatus ( Fowler, 1943)
  • Minous Trachycephalus ( Bleeker, 1854)
  • Minous usachevi Mandrytsa, 1993
  • Minous versicolor Ogilby, 1910
Perciformes David Starr Jordan Joseph S. Nelson
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