Glass perches ( lat. Ambassidae ) - a family of ray-finned fish of the order of perciform . The name comes from Greek. Ανάβασις , meaning "climbing." Previously, the family was called Chandidae.
| Glass perches |
Parambassis ranga |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
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| International scientific name |
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Ambassidae Klunzinger, 1870 |
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Ambassis Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1828 |
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The maximum length of glass perches is about 26 cm. There are 24–25 vertebrae in the spine. Dorsal and anal fins with 7-11 rays, ventral fin with five rays. Dorsal fin with 7-8 spines, anal fin with three, ventral fin with one. The body of many species is transparent or translucent, so glass perches are often found in aquariums [1] .
Glass perches are found in the waters of the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans, washing Asia and Oceania . Aquarium species - freshwater.
The family includes 8 genera with approximately 50 species [2] .
- Genus Ambassis - Ambasses , or glass perches (genus)
- Ambassis agassizii
- Ambassis agrammus
- Ambassis ambassis - Common Glass Bass
- Ambassis buruensis
- Ambassis buton
- Ambassis dussumieri
- Ambassis elongatus
- Ambassis fontoynonti
- Ambassis gymnocephalus
- Ambassis interrupta
- Ambassis jacksoniensis
- Ambassis kopsii
- Ambassis macleayi - Mackerel reticulum , or Maclay glass perch
- Ambassis macracanthus
- Ambassis marianus
- Ambassis miops
- Ambassis muelleri
- Ambassis nalua
- Ambassis natalensis
- Ambassis productus
- Ambassis urotaenia - Striped glass perch
- Ambassis vachellii
- Genus Chanda - Chandy
- Genus Denariusa
- Denariusa australis
- Denariusa bandata
- Genus Gymnochanda
- Gymnochanda filamentosa - Filamentous glass perch
- Gymnochanda flamea
- Gymnochanda limi
- Genus Paradoxodacna
- Genus Parambassis - Parambassis
- Parambassis altipinnis
- Parambassis apogonoides
- Parambassis confinis
- Parambassis dayi
- Parambassis gulliveri - Gulliver's Parambassis , or large glass perch
- Parambassis lala
- Parambassis macrolepis
- Parambassis pulcinella
- Parambassis ranga - Indian Glass Bass [3]
- Parambassis siamensis
- Parambassis tenasserimensis
- Parambassis thomassi
- Parambassis vollmeri
- Parambassis wolffii
- Genus Pseudambassis
- Pseudambassis alleni
- Pseudambassis baculis
- Pseudambassis roberti
- Genus Tetracentrum
- Tetracentrum apogonoides - Glass apogon perch
- Tetracentrum caudovittatus
- Tetracentrum honessi
- ↑ Nelson D.S. Fishes of World Fauna / Transl. 4th rev. English ed. N. G. Bogutskaya, scientific. Ed. by A. M. Nasek, A. S. Gerd. - M .: Book House "LIBROCOM", 2009. - S. 476-477. - ISBN 978-5-397-00675-0 .
- ↑ Family Ambassidae (neopr.) . www.fishbase.org. Archived on April 18, 2013.
- ↑ Reshetnikov Yu.S. , Kotlyar A.N. , Russ T.S. , Shatunovsky M.I. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Fish. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1989 .-- P. 235 .-- 12,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00237-0 .
- The Ambassidae family (English) in the World Register of Marine Species .
