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Oplegnathus fasciatus
Description
Oplegnathus fasciatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844).
Barred Knifejaw, Striped Knifejaw, or Striped Beak Fish. To 80 cm (31.5 in) TL (Ta et al. 2018). Primarily Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hawai’i (Nakabo 2002); reports of occasional individuals from Malta, Mediterranean Sea (Schembri et al. 2010); scattered localities in Washington, Oregon, and California as far south as Monterey Bay, central California, entering the eastern Pacific associated with debris from the 2011 Great Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (Ta et al. 2018). Depth: intertidal to 10 m (33 ft) (min.: Kwun et al. 2017; max.: Randall 2007).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Oplegnathidae
- Genus
- Oplegnathus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Temminck & Schlegel
- Species
- fasciatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oplegnathus fasciatus (Temminck, 1844) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Ta, N., Miller, J. A., Chapman, J. W., Pleus, A. E., Calvanese, T., Miller-Morgan, T., Burke, J. & Carlton, J. T. (2018) The Western Pacific barred knifefish, Oplegnathus fasciatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) (Oplegnathidae), arriving with tsunami debris on the Pacific coast of North America. Aquatic Invasions, 13, 179 - 186. https: // doi. org / 10.3391 / ai. 2018.13.1.14
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Schembri, P. J., Bodilis, P., Evans, J. & Francour, P. (2010) Occurrence of barred knifejaw, Oplegnathus fasciatus (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Oplegnathidae), in Malta (central Mediterranean) with a discussion of possible modes of entry. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 40, 101 - 104. https: // doi. org / 10.3750 / aip 2010.40.2.01
- Kwun, H. J., Park, J., Kim, H. S., Kim, J. - H. & Park, H. - S. (2017) Checklist of the tidal pool fishes of Jeju Island, Korea. ZooKeys, 709, 135 - 154. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 709.14711
- Randall, J. (2007) Reef and Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu.