Synodontidae

Synod variegatus

The lizard fish ( Synodontidae ) are a family of soil- less predators. The majority of the species lives on sandy grounds in shallow, tropical regions of all three oceans, some also in brackish water.

Appearance

Lizard fish are of slender, elongated shape. You do not have spines and 12 to 50 inches long. The robbers have a deeply divided mouth with many fine very sharp teeth on the tongue. The number of Branchiostegalstrahlen is from 8 to 26 which is the vortex at 39 to 67 The Supramaxillare, a bone of the upper jaw, small. The lizard fish from deeper marine areas are often colored bright red, fish out of shallow water are sand-colored camouflage, often with the figure -resolution patterning.

Nutrition

Lizard fish lurk on, or buried in the sand or between crushed coral to your prey, which may consist of small fish such as groupers, gobies, wrasses, but also shrimp or squid. Grab for prey to their own size.

Propagation

Not much is known about the propagation of the lizard fish. Unlike many other lizards, fish relatives they are not hermaphrodites, but dioecious. They spawn in the open water. The hatching after two to three days, transparent larvae are extremely elongated. First you live planktonic and take at a size of 3 to 3.5 inches on soil life of the adult animals.

Inside systematics

There are two subfamilies, five genera and 70 species:

Subfamily Synodontinae

For species of the subfamily Synodontinae the pelvic fins of eight fin rays are templated. The dorsal fin has 10 to 15 fin rays, the anal fin 8 to 16 fin rays. An adipose fin is normally present. The scales along the lateral line are not enlarged. The maximum length is 60 cm.

  • Genus Synod Synod amaranthus Waples & Randall, 1988
  • Synod binotatus Schultz, 1953
  • Synod capricornis Cressey & Randall, 1978
  • Synod dermatogenys Fowler, 1912
  • Synod doaki Russell & Cressey, 1979
  • Synod englemani Schultz, 1953
  • Synod ever manni Jordan & Bollman, 1890
  • Synod falcatus Waples & Randall, 1988
  • Synod foetens (Linnaeus, 1766 )
  • Synod fuscus Tanaka, 1917
  • Synod gibbsi Cressey, 1981
  • Synod hoshinonis Tanaka, 1917
  • Indian lizardfish ( Synod indicus ) ( Day, 1873)
  • Synod intermedius ( Spix & Agassiz, 1829)
  • Tail spot lizardfish ( Synod jaculum ) Russell & Cressey, 1979
  • Synod janus Waples & Randall, 1988
  • Synod kaianus ( Günther, 1880)
  • Synod lacertinus Gilbert, 1890
  • Synod lobeli Waples & Randall, 1988
  • Synod lucioceps ( Ayres, 1855)
  • Synod macrocephalus Cressey, 1981
  • Synod macrops Tanaka, 1917
  • Synod macrostigmus Frable, Luther & Baldwin, 2013
  • Synod marchenae Hildebrand, 1946
  • Synod oculeus Cressey, 1981
  • Synod poeyi Jordan, 1887
  • Synod randalli Cressey, 1981
  • Rotmarmorierter lizardfish ( Synod rubromarmoratus ) Russell & Cressey, 1979
  • Synod sageneus Waite, 1905
  • Synod saurus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Synod scituliceps Jordan & Gilbert, 1882
  • Synod sechurae Hildebrand, 1946
  • Synod similis McCulloch, 1921
  • Synod synodus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Synod tectus Cressey, 1981
  • Synod ULAE Schultz, 1953
  • Synod usitatus Cressey, 1981
  • Synod variegatus ( Lacepede, 1803)

Subfamily Harpadontinae

The species of the subfamily Harpadontinae only occur in the Indo-Pacific. Their heads run to less pointed than in the subfamily Synodontinae and they have more teeth. Their pelvic fins are supported by nine fin rays. Dorsal and anal fins have 9 to 15 fin rays. In the secondary pelagic species Harpadon who wanders in brackish water regions, head and body, with the exception of a portion of the rear body and the scales along the lateral line are scaleless. Harpadon has one, two Saurida Supramaxillare.

  • Genus Harpadon Harpadon erythraeus Klausewitz, 1983
  • Harpadon microchir Günther, 1878
  • Harpadon nehereus (Hamilton, 1822)
  • Harpadon squamosus ( Alcock, 1891)
  • Harpadon translucens Saville -Kent, 1889
  • Saurida argentea Macleay, 1881
  • Saurida brasiliensis Norman, 1935
  • Saurida caribbaea Breder, 1927
  • Saurida elongata ( Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
  • Saurida Ogilby filamentosa, 1910
  • Hawaii lizardfish ( Saurida flamma ) Waples, 1982
  • Graciler lizardfish ( Saurida gracilis ) ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
  • Saurida grandisquamis Günther, 1864
  • Saurida isarankurai Shindo & Yamada, 1972
  • Saurida longimanus Norman, 1939
  • Saurida microlepis Wu & Wang, 1931
  • Saurida micropectoralis Shindo & Yamada, 1972
  • Saurida nebulosa Valenciennes, 1850
  • Saurida normani Longley, 1935
  • Saurida pseudotumbil Dutt & Sagar, 1981
  • Saurida suspicio Breder, 1927
  • Saurida tumbil ( Bloch, 1795)
  • Saurida umeyoshii Inoue & Nakabo, 2006.
  • Saurida undosquamis ( Richardson, 1848)
  • Saurida wanieso Shindo & Yamada, 1972
Variegated lizardfish Taxonomic rank#All ranks Aulopiformes Joseph S. Nelson FishBase
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