Neoniphon

Bloodstain Hussars fish ( Neoniphon sammara )

Neoniphon is a genus of fish Hussars ( Holocentrinae ) are counted in the five rather slender species. The Yellow Striped Husar lives in the Caribbean, the remaining species in the tropical Indo-Pacific.

Features

Your body is three to four times longer than high. The fish have a pointed muzzle and a protruding lower jaw. The last fin ray of the first dorsal fin is hartstrahligen the first fin ray of the second soft-rayed dorsal fin closer than its forward neighbors. Neoniphon species are 18 to 35 inches long. They are reddish or silvery color and carry on their flanks longitudinal stripes. The scientific name plays with its meaning " snow " on the bright coloration of many styles.

System

Current phylogenetic studies indicate that the genus is not monophyletic. Here you previously attributed types:

• Genus Neoniphon Castelnau, 1875. Silver fin fish Hussars ( Neoniphon argenteus ) ( Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1831).
• Yellow stripes Hussars fish ( Neoniphon aurolineatus ) ( Liénard, 1839).
• Yellow Striped Husar ( Neoniphon marianus ) ( Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1829).
• Yellow Husar ( Neoniphon opercularis ) ( Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1831).
• Bloodstain Hussars fish ( Neoniphon sammara ) ( Forsskål, 1775).