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Overview |
Main identification features
- eyes right side
- body elongate
- pelvic separate from a
ASERAGGODES
SOLES
Body elongate; mouth horizontal, strongly curved; front nostril a tube that does not reach eye; rear nostril a slit in lip; a fringe of small papillae around margin of head; no pectoral fins; margin of preopercle hidden under skin & scales; pelvics short based, not joined to anal fin; dorsal fin origin on snout, the 1st ray not elongate; scaled between eyes; lateral line straight along middle of both sides of body, with short branch forward onto nape of blind side.
An Indo-Pacific genus with nearly 20 species; one occurs in and is endemic to our region.
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References |
- Findley, L.T., Hendrickx, M.E., Brusca, R.C., van der Heiden, A.M., Hastings, P.A., Torre, J., 2003., Diversidad de la Macrofauna Marina del Golfo de California, Mexico., CD-ROM versión 1.0. Projecto de la Macrofauna del Golfo . Derechos reservados de los autores y Conservación Internacional.
- Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen III. Vertebrados - Parte 2., FAO3:1201-1813.
- Grove , J.S. and Lavenberg, R. J., 1997., The fishes of the Galápagos islands., Stanford University Press:863 pp.
- Seale, A., 1940., Report on fishes from Allan Hancock expeditions in the California Academy of Sciences., Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 9:1-46.
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Acknowledgements |
I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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