The painted unicorn [2] [3] [4] , or tropical Osbekia [4] ( lat. Aluterus scriptus ) is a species of marine ray-finned fish of the family of unicorns detachment of fish - tops .
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Description
Body length ranges from 40 to 110 cm. Weight - up to 2.5 kg. Elongated snout with noticeable concavity. Tail fin rounded. Body color is olive brown to gray or rusty with blue lines and spots.
Spread
Tropical Osbekia is common in the tropics and subtropics of most seas and oceans [5] . Animals live alone or in pairs, most often in the lagoons or on the outer slope of coral reefs at a depth of 3 to 120 m. Occasionally found in the open sea under moving objects or algae.
Power
Fish feed on algae, smelt and invertebrates such as hydroids , gorgonians , sea anemones, and tunicates .
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Notes
- ↑ FishBase: Synonyms Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck, 1765)
- ↑ Animal life. Volume 4. Lancelet. Roundup. Cartilaginous fish. Bony fish / ed. TS Rass , ch. ed. V.Ye. Sokolov . - 2nd ed. - M .: Education, 1983. - p. 384. - 575 p.
- ↑ Wrestler LA. Annotated list of fish of the Far Eastern seas. - Vladivostok: TINRO-Center, 2000. - 192 p.
- ↑ 1 2 Reshetnikov Yu. S. , Kotlyar A. N. , Russ T. S. , Shatunovsky M. I. Pyatiazychny dictionary of animal names. Fish. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., 1989. - p. 412. - 12 500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00237-0 .
- ↑ Painted Unicorn (English) in the FishBase database.
Literature
- Baensch / Patzner: Mergus Meerwasser-Atlas Band 6 Non-Perciformes (Nicht-Barschartige). Mergus-Verlag, Melle 1999, ISBN 3-88244-116-X