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Main identification features
- snout projecting
- nape: row hard keeled scales
- behind operculum: blotch+ rows spots
- top jaw: notch in center
- anal fin short, origin well behind d
ETHMIDIUM
MENHADENS
Body deep, compressed; a keel of scutes along belly; a row of 21-30 scutes along back from nape to dorsal fin; top jaw with distinct central notch; mouth large; no teeth; ~130-150 slender rakers on lower limb of 1st gill arch; dorsal at about mid-body; anal fin with short base, with origin well behind dorsal fin; pelvic with 7 rays; scales with vertical radii.
The genus contains a single species endemic to the subtropical and temperate Pacific coast of South America.
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References |
- Béarez, P., 1996., Lista de los Peces Marinos del Ecuador Continental., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44:731-741.
- Cuvier , G. and Valenciennes, A., 1847., Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dix-neuvieme. Suite du livre dix-neuvieme. Brochets ou Lucioides. Livre vingtieme. De quelques familles de Malacopterygiens, intermediaires entre les Brochets et les Clupes., Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, 19:i-xix + 1-544 + 6pp.
- Hildebrand, S.F., 1946., A descriptive catalog of the shore fishes of Peru., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 189:1-530.
- Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2.
- Starks, E. C., 1906., On a Collection of fishes made by P. O. Simons in Ecuador and Peru., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 30:761-800.
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