Quillfish

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Quillfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Suborder: Zoarcoidei
Family: Ptilichthyidae
Jordan & Gilbert, 1883[2]
Genus: Ptilichthys
Bean, 1881[1]
Species:
P. goodei
Binomial name
Ptilichthys goodei
Bean, 1881

The quillfish, (Ptilichthys goodei), is a species of marine

only species
in the genus Ptilichthys and family Ptilichthyidae. This fish occurs in the northern North Pacific Ocean.

Taxonomy

The quillfish was first formally

monophyletic.[5]

Etymology

The generic name Ptilichthys is a combination of ptilon, which is Greek for "quill" with ichthys. meaning "fish", an allusion to the feather-like appearance of this fish, being extremely elongate, slender and with long dorsal and anal fins. The specific name honours the American ichthyologist George Brown Goode, who was a colleague and collaborator of Bean's.[6]

Description

The Quillfish has an extremely elongate, slender body with lon-based tall

pelvic girdle. There is a single pair of nostrils. The minute cycloid scales are scattered or may be absent. The sharp, conical teeth are present in the jaw, arranged in a dense single row, but there are no other teeth. There is no pyloric caeca or swim bladder. The overall colour may be yellow or orange to greenish gray, and the body is rather translucent. There is a dark streak along body with others on head in preserved specimens. Attains up to 39 cm length not including caudal filament.[7] The species attains a maximum published total length of 40 cm (16 in).[8]

Distribution and habitat

The quillfish occurs in the northern North Pacific Ocean from the Bering Sea in the north and south to Oregon in the eastern Pacific and to the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk in the western Pacific.[7] They are demersal fish which arefound at depths between 0 and 360 m (0 and 1,181 ft).[8]

Biology

Quillfish have been found on the surface at night, attracted by the lights of fishing boats, but little is known about its daytime habits; it may burrow in sandy and muddy bottoms during the day, emerging at dusk to feed and they are attracted to artificial lights.[7]

Quillfishes have been found in the stomachs of juvenile

predator.[9]

See also

References

  • "Ptilichthys goodei". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 April 2006.
  1. ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Ptilichthyidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  2. ^
    PMID 25543675
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  3. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Ptilichthy". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
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  5. PMID 28683774
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  6. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (4 July 2021). "Order Perciformes (Part 11): Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Zoarcales: Families: Anarhichadidae, Neozoarcidae, Eulophias, Stichaeidae, Lumpenidae, Ophistocentridae, Pholidae, Ptilichthyidae, Zaproridae, Cryptacanthodidae, Cebidichthyidae, Scytalinidae and Bathymasteridae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  7. ^ a b c Mecklenburg, C.W. (2003). "Family Ptilichthyidae Jordan & Gilbert 1883 - quillfishes". California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes. 12.
  8. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Ptilichthys goodei" in FishBase. February 2022 version.
  9. ^ Laurie A. Weitkamp (2005). "Quillfish, Ptilichthys goodei, Filiform Prey for Small Coho and Chinook Salmon". Alaska Fishery Research Bulletin. 11 (1).
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