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Main identification features
- body and head very compressed
- d: sail-like, high at front
- head deep; mouth oblique
- pectoral: large fan
TAENIANOTUS
SCORPIONFISHES, LEAFFISHES
Body deep, highly compressed; dorsal fin sail-like, with XII spines, second 2-3 highest, last ray partly attached to tail; scales in form of small, spiny papillae; no spines before eye.
This genus has a single Indo-Pacific species.
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References |
- Lacepède, B. G. E., 1802., Histoire naturelle des poissons., Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, 4:i-xliv + 1-728.
- McCosker , J.E. and Rosenblatt, R.H., 1985., The inshore fish fauna of the Galápagos Islands. In Key Environments-Galápagos, ed. R. Perry., Pergamon Press:133-144.
- McCosker, J.E., 1987., The fishes of the Galapagos Islands., Oceanus, 30:28-32.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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