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Hoplostethus melanopus (Weber, 1913)

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 4 - 5; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13 - 16; Anal spines: 2 - 3; Anal soft rays: 8 - 10. Body and head brownish grey; fins dusky to blackish (Ref. 4181).

Common Names

  • Smallscale sawbelly , English , Australia
  • Smallscale slimehead , English , Australia
  • Smallscale slimehead , English , Namibia
  • Smallscale slimehead , English , Global
  • Hoplostète scutelle , French , Global
  • 光腹鯛 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 光腹鲷 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 黑首胸棘鯛 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 黑首胸棘鲷 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • Reloj escama pequeña , Spanish , Spain

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Trachichthyiformes

    Family: Trachichthyidae

    Genus: Hoplostethus

    Species: Hoplostethus melanopus (Weber, 1913)

    Climate Zone

  • bathydemersal

    • Location

    Biology

    Found on the continental slope (Ref. 75154). Lives close to the bottom (Ref. 27121).

    Habitat

    bathydemersal