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stippled gunnel
Rhodymenichthys dolichogaster (Pallas, 1814)
Also calledGunel-japonês (por) · Hakodategimpo (jpn) · Длиннобрюхий маслюк (rus) · Родименихт (rus) · ハコダテギンポ (jpn) · 황줄베도라치 (kor)
The stippled gunnel (Rhodymenichthys dolichogaster) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Pholidae, the gunnels. It is the only species in the monospecific genus Rhodymenichthys. It is found in the northern North Pacific Ocean.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Stippled Gunnel. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Kuril Islands, Commander Islands, and Aleutian Islands, to Saint Lawrence Island and Norton Sound, northern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic; marine and brackish waters (Dyldin and Orlov 2017); depth: intertidal to 148 m (485 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The stippled gunnel has an elongated body. Its dorsal fin contains between 80 and 96 spines while the anal fin has 2 or 3 spines and between 40 and 51 soft rays. There is a single pore between the eyes and it has pelvic fins. It has a highly variable body colour which may be brown, green or pale purple and there is a thin silvery horizontal band which runs from the eye to the base of the pectoral fin. This species reached a maximum published total length of 25 cm (9.8 in).
Range & habitat
The stippled gunnel is found in the North Pacific Ocean from Niigata and Iwate Prefectures in Japan to Primorskii Krai, Sakhalin and the Commander Islands in Russia. It has been found from the Bering Sea to the Aleutian Islands and has been reported from South Korea, This species occurs down to 148 m (486 ft) and is commonly found among seaweeds in the intertidal zone.
== References ==
In human culture
The stipple gunnel's generic name Rhodymenichthys is a combination of Rhodymenia, a genus of red seaweed, assumed to be a reference to the cherry-red colour of the body and fins as well as the occurrence of this species in beds of that seaweed, with ichthys the Greek for "fish". The specific name dolichogaster means "long belly", assumed to refer to the anal fin's origin being quite far to the rear, creating a long belly.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2390450.