Jabuns [1] ( lat. Opsanus ) is a genus of marine ray-finned fish from the Batrachoididae family. Representatives of the genus are common in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean . Body length varies from 12.6 to 43.2 cm [2] . These are bottom predatory fish waiting for prey in ambush.
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Description
The skin is bare. Three side lines . In the first dorsal fin there are three spiny rays, and in the second dorsal fin there are 23–27 soft rays. In the anal fin there are 19-23 soft rays. Small ventral fins are located in front of the pectoral fins.
Males guard the laying of caviar. Able to make sounds using the swim bladder .
Classification
The genus includes 5 species [2] :
- Opsanus beta ( Goode & Bean , 1880)
- Opsanus dichrostomus collette , 2001
- Opsanus pardus (Goode & Bean, 1880)
- Opsanus phobetron Walters & CR Robins , 1961
- Opsanus tau ( Linnaeus , 1766)
In 2005, a new species of Opsanus brasiliensis from the coastal waters of Brazil was described [3] . However, it was later shown that this species was erroneously described as a new species and is synonymous with O. beta [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 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. 419. - 12,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00237-0 .
- ↑ 1 2 Opsanus in the FishBase database. (Retrieved January 22, 2019) .
- ↑ Rotundo, MM; Spinelli, M .; Zavala-Camin, LA Desçricão de uma nova espécie de Opsanus (Teleostei - Batrachoididae) no litoral do Estado de São Paulo Brasil (port) // Revista Ceciliana. - 2005. - Vol. 16 , num. 23 . - P. 93–99 .
- ↑ Rodrigo Antunes CairesI, Helen Audrey Pichler, Henry Louis Spach, Juliana Martinhão Ignácio. Opsanus brasiliensis Rotundo, Spinelli & Zavalla-Camin, 2005 (Teleostei: Batrachoidiformes: Batrachoididae), sinônimo-júnior de Opsanus beta (Goode & Bean, 1880), com notas sobre a ocorrência da espécie na costota bra - 2007. - Vol. 7, No. 2 . - DOI : 10.1590 / S1676-06032007000200015 .
Literature
Greenfield DW, Winterbottom R. and Collette BB Review of the Toadfish Genera (Teleostei: Batrachoididae) // Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4. - 2008. - Vol. 59, No. 15 . - P. 665-710.