- Tube-eye
Taxobox
name = Tube-eye
image_width = 240px
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Actinopterygii
ordo =Stylephoriformes
familia = Stylephoridae
genus = "Stylephorus"
species = "S. chordatus"
binomial = "Stylephorus chordatus"
binomial_authority = Shaw, 1791The tube-eye or thread-tail, "Stylephorus chordatus", is a deep-seaStylephoriformes fish, the only fish in the genus "Stylephorus" and family Stylephoridae. [FishBase family | family = Stylephoridae | month = February | year = 2006] [FishBase species | genus = Stylephorus | species = chordatus | month = February | year = 2006]It is found in deep subtropical and tropical waters around the world, living at depths during the day and making nightly vertical migrations to feed on
plankton . It is an extremely elongated fish: although its body grows only to 28 cm long, it has a pair of tail fin rays that triple its length to about 90 cm. Its eyes bulge out from the head on telescopic tubes.It has a tubular mouth through which it sucks seawater by enlarging its oral cavity to about forty times its original size. It then expels the water through the
gill s, leaving behind thecopepod s on which it feeds.The Tube fish was previously thought to be related to "Lampridiformes", a group of other bizzarre fishes. However it has now been placed in a new order, named "Stylephoriformes".
[cite web | url = http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/life/bestiary3.html | title = Into the Abyss: Deep-Sea Beastiary, part 3 | publisher = Nova Online | date = 2000 | accessdate = 3 April | accessyear = 2006]
References
*
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.