Ecognosis
Login

Login to Ecognosis.org

Allocareproctus jordani (Burke, 1930)

Description

Diagnosis: Simple teeth or with weak shoulders; nasal pore 1 with pigmented papilla; black peritoneum; single, finger-like projection on the orobuccal valve, its cavity pale; gill rakers 8 - 12, short and blunt; interorbital papilla may be present or absent; pyloric caeca on the right side; body is red; iris silver gray (Ref. 57077).

Common Names

  • Cherry snailfish , English , Alaska
  • Misaki-bikunin , Japanese , Japan
  • 乔氏异头狮鱼属 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 乔氏短吻狮子鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 喬氏異頭獅魚屬 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 喬氏短吻獅子魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Perciformes/Cottoidei

    Family: Liparidae

    Genus: Allocareproctus

    Species: Allocareproctus jordani (Burke, 1930)

    Climate Zone

  • bathydemersal

    • Location

  • Northwest Pacific: off Honshu, Japan at Sagami Bay, Kuril Islands, and eastern Okhotsk Sea.

    • Biology

    Smallest female with yolked eggs measured 10.5. cm SL; smallest male with enlarged, swollen testes 7.45 cm SL (Ref. 57077).

    Habitat

    bathydemersal