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Overview |
Main identification features
- body compressed, deep; forehead oblique
- dorsal fin and a: long front lobes
- tail base: long, strong keel
- body and fins with large scales
TARACTES
POMFRETS
Head and body compressed; snout pointed; head profile straight, oblique; mouth at front, strongly oblique; eye large; dorsal and anal fins low, with large pointed lobes at front; tail deeply concave; tail base with a large, long keel made of fused scales ; pectoral low on ody, long, reaches past front lobe of anal fin; pelvics small, inserted just before pectoral base; scales large; dorsal & anal fins scaly; adults without lateral line; juveniles with very long fins.
A circumglobal genus with a disjunctive distribution (absent for the eastern Indian Ocean and central Pacific); with 2 species; one Pacific and west Atlantic species enters the southern fringe of our region.
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References |
- Béarez, P., 1996., Lista de los Peces Marinos del Ecuador Continental., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44:731-741.
- 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 II. Vertebrados - Parte 1., FAO2:647-1200.
- Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2.
- Jordan , D.S. and Evermann, B.W., 1887., Description of six new species of fishes from the Gulf of Mexico, with notes on other species., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 9:466-476.
- Jordan , D.S. and Evermann, B.W., 1896., The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part I., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 47:1-1240.
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Acknowledgements |
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