Stromateidae

Peprilus paru

The Medusenfische ( Stromateidae ) or harvest fish are marine fish of the order Scombriformes. They live in shoals in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific, usually near the coast over the continental slopes.

Features

You have hochrückige, laterally flattened body that are covered with small, slightly sloping roundhouse. The gill cover wear two short, flat spines. The fish have only one dorsal fin, which has few hard jets. Adult animals have no pelvic fins. The anal fin has two to six hard - and 30 to 50 soft rays.

Medusenfische feed on jellyfish and salps. Pups looking under the umbrella of jellyfish also protection.

System

  • Pampus Pampus argenteus ( Euphrasen, 1788).
  • Pampus chinensis ( Euphrasen, 1788).
  • Pampus cinereus ( Bloch, 1795).
  • Pampus echinogaster ( Basilewsky, 1855).
  • Pampus liuorum Liu & Li, 2013.
  • Pampus minor Liu & Li, 1998.
  • Pampus punctatissimus ( Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
  • Peprilus alepidotus (Linnaeus, 1766 ).
  • Peprilus burti Fowler, 1944.
  • Peprilus medius (Peters, 1869).
  • Peprilus ovatus Horn, 1970.
  • Peprilus paru (Linnaeus, 1758).
  • Peprilus simillimus ( Ayres, 1860).
  • Peprilus snyderi Gilbert & Starks, 1904.
  • Peprilus triacanthus ( Peck, 1804).
  • Stromateus brasiliensis Fowler, 1906.
  • Blue butterfish ( Stromateus fiatola ) Linnaeus, 1758.
  • Stromateus stellatus Cuvier, in 1829.

Fossil record

With Pinichthys pulcher from the lower Oligocene of the North Caucasus also a fossil Medusenfisch is known ..

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