Elongate dory

Elongate dory

Taxobox
name = Elongate dory


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Zeiformes
familia = Zenionidae
genus = "Zenion"
genus_authority = Jordan & Evermann, 1896
species = "Z. leptolepis"
binomial = "Zenion leptolepis"
binomial_authority = (Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924)

The elongate dory, "Zenion leptolepis", is a dory, in the genus "Zenion", found around South Africa, southern Australia, and New Zealand, over the continental shelf at depths of between 350 and 700 m. Its length is between 10 and 16 cm.

The elongate dory is a small slender fish, with disproportionately large eyes which take up most of the space between the snout and the operculum, and are one fifth of the fishes entire length. Its fins are moderately sized, the first dorsal fin having strong black-tipped spines but not great length as in the john dory.

The body is silvery with a red sheen. They are an uncommon species.

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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