Lemon Tea Yi Kai, Japan
Info
Lipogramma schrieri is another deep-water fairy bass known so far only from the Caribbean waters around Curaçao, this island belongs together with Aruba and Bonnaire to the group of ABC islands.
This fairy bass lives in elevated rocky habitats with numerous cracks or holes, into which the fish withdrew when the submarine, which was under investigation at the time, approached.
Short portrait:
Elongate, compressed body; eye large; snout short; mouth opens at front; teeth on jaws, and front and sides of roof of mouth; preopercle edge smooth; opercle with a flat projection; gill rakers long 11-13 (3-4 + 8-9); dorsal fin XII, 9; anal fin III, 8; pectorals rounded, 16-17; pelvics I, 5, with 1st ray elongated, reaching past anal fin base; tail fin slightly forked, with rounded tips; short rays on upper and lower base of tail fin thick and spiny, 4 on top of tail; no lateral line; ~25-27 lateral scales.
Ground color light brown; head with top midline with irregular, blue-white tattoo-like markings from lower lip to nape; a dark brown bar from eye to lower jaw, this bordered on either side by thin whitish bar; body with 7-8 narrow, dark-brown bars, those narrower than paler interspaces; dorsal fin: spinous dorsal and front of soft dorsal blue-grey with stripes comprising short yellow bars proximally and yellow spots distally; rear of soft dorsal with large black ocellus ringed in blue-white that extends onto body, several rows of yellow spots above ocellus; anal fin blue-grey, with yellow markings similar to those on spinous dorsal fin; tail fin yellow, with vertical bars composed of lines of blue-grey spots, a wide, blue-grey margin distally; pectorals translucent, base dark; pelvics blue-grey to bright blue with yellow-ringed dark spots. Juveniles: smallest fish lack body bars,with row of four large, irregular white blotches on or just below lateral midline of trunk, smaller white spots along back above that row, white spot at rear base of anal fin, two large, roughly triangular white blotches on caudal-fin base; medium sized juveniles with front four dark trunk bars, smaller white markings; large juveniles with all trunk bars present, and remnants of each white caudal-fin blotch present as small white spot before indistinct pale vertical bar.
Etymologie
Benannt zu Ehren von Adriaan (Niederländisch) Schrier, Besitzer der Umspannstation Curaçao. Obwohl das Unterseeboot Curasub ursprünglich nicht für wissenschaftliche Forschung gebaut wurde, hat die enthusiastische Unterstützung des Forschungseinsatzes seines Unterseebootes durch Dutch unser Verständnis der Fisch- und Wirbellosenfauna der mesophotischen und tieferen Riffe der Karibik exponentiell erweitert.
Allgemeiner Name
Wir schlagen den Namen "Maori Basslet" vor, in Bezug auf die Ähnlichkeit der Markierungen auf der dorsalen Mittellinie der Stirn mit der schönen Gesichts-Tätowierung der Maoris, einem einheimischen polynesischen Volk Neuseelands.
Source:
Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system
Our special thanks for this photo go to Lemon TJK from Japan.
This fairy bass lives in elevated rocky habitats with numerous cracks or holes, into which the fish withdrew when the submarine, which was under investigation at the time, approached.
Short portrait:
Elongate, compressed body; eye large; snout short; mouth opens at front; teeth on jaws, and front and sides of roof of mouth; preopercle edge smooth; opercle with a flat projection; gill rakers long 11-13 (3-4 + 8-9); dorsal fin XII, 9; anal fin III, 8; pectorals rounded, 16-17; pelvics I, 5, with 1st ray elongated, reaching past anal fin base; tail fin slightly forked, with rounded tips; short rays on upper and lower base of tail fin thick and spiny, 4 on top of tail; no lateral line; ~25-27 lateral scales.
Ground color light brown; head with top midline with irregular, blue-white tattoo-like markings from lower lip to nape; a dark brown bar from eye to lower jaw, this bordered on either side by thin whitish bar; body with 7-8 narrow, dark-brown bars, those narrower than paler interspaces; dorsal fin: spinous dorsal and front of soft dorsal blue-grey with stripes comprising short yellow bars proximally and yellow spots distally; rear of soft dorsal with large black ocellus ringed in blue-white that extends onto body, several rows of yellow spots above ocellus; anal fin blue-grey, with yellow markings similar to those on spinous dorsal fin; tail fin yellow, with vertical bars composed of lines of blue-grey spots, a wide, blue-grey margin distally; pectorals translucent, base dark; pelvics blue-grey to bright blue with yellow-ringed dark spots. Juveniles: smallest fish lack body bars,with row of four large, irregular white blotches on or just below lateral midline of trunk, smaller white spots along back above that row, white spot at rear base of anal fin, two large, roughly triangular white blotches on caudal-fin base; medium sized juveniles with front four dark trunk bars, smaller white markings; large juveniles with all trunk bars present, and remnants of each white caudal-fin blotch present as small white spot before indistinct pale vertical bar.
Etymologie
Benannt zu Ehren von Adriaan (Niederländisch) Schrier, Besitzer der Umspannstation Curaçao. Obwohl das Unterseeboot Curasub ursprünglich nicht für wissenschaftliche Forschung gebaut wurde, hat die enthusiastische Unterstützung des Forschungseinsatzes seines Unterseebootes durch Dutch unser Verständnis der Fisch- und Wirbellosenfauna der mesophotischen und tieferen Riffe der Karibik exponentiell erweitert.
Allgemeiner Name
Wir schlagen den Namen "Maori Basslet" vor, in Bezug auf die Ähnlichkeit der Markierungen auf der dorsalen Mittellinie der Stirn mit der schönen Gesichts-Tätowierung der Maoris, einem einheimischen polynesischen Volk Neuseelands.
Source:
Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system
Our special thanks for this photo go to Lemon TJK from Japan.
