Rosenblattia robusta

Rosenblattia robusta

Taxobox
name = "Rosenblattia robusta"


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Epigonidae
genus = "Rosenblattia"
species = "R. robusta"
binomial = "Rosenblattia robusta"
binomial_authority = Mead & De Falla, 1965

"Rosenblattia robusta" is a species of deepwater cardinalfish, the only member of the genus "Rosenblattia", found circumglobally in southern temperate waters. Its length is between 5 and 12 cm.

"Rosenblattia robusta" is deep bodied with a humped back above the pectoral fin area, and a single keel on each side of the caudal peduncle.

Adults are a uniform golden brown with a black lining to the mouth and gill cavity.Juvenile fish are a pale gold with a white caudal peduncle separated by a black band that continues forward along the dorsal and anal fin bases.

This species is a plankton feeder with curved conical teeth that lives in midwater on the boundary between the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones.

References

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* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, "Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand", (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8


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