Zenionidae

Zenion hololepis

The Zenionidae (synonym: Zeniontidae ) are a family of Peter Fishy ( Zeiformes ). They live in the oceans around South Africa and in tropical and subtropical western Pacific, with Japan, Australia and New Zealand and off the coast of Chile at depths of 200-600 meters.

Features

The body of the fish is about 2.5 times as long as high, they have 25 to 27 vertebrae. The upper jaw is extremely far vorstreckbar. The eye diameter is greater than or equal to the length of foot column. The jaws have small teeth. The pelvic fins have a single large, jagged hard radiation, the anal fin none, one or two small hard jets, the pectoral fins 12 to 18 fin rays.

The fish are 7-16 inches long.

Species

There are seven species in three genera. The first two species were formerly placed in the Zeidae, Zenion was the only one of Zenionidae.

  • Capromimus Capromimus abbreviatus ( Hector, 1875).
  • Cyttomimus affinis Weber, 1913.
  • Cyttomimus stelgis Gilbert, 1905.
  • Zenion hololepis ( Goode & Bean, 1896).
  • Zenion japonicum Mr. Kamohara, 1934.
  • Zenion leptolepis ( Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924).
  • Zenion longipinnis Kotthaus, 1970.
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