- Classification
- ACTINOPTERYGII
- PERCIFORMES
- NOMEIDAE
- Psenes
- cyanophrys
Freckled Driftfish, Psenes cyanophrys Valenciennes 1833
Other Names: Blue Eyebrow-fish
A juvenile Freckled Driftfish, Psenes cyanophrys, near the sea surface at Chichi Island, Ogasawara, Japan. Source: orangkucing / http://orangkucing.tumblr.com/. License: CC by Attribution-ShareAlike
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Bray, D.J. 2019, Psenes cyanophrys in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/505
Freckled Driftfish, Psenes cyanophrys Valenciennes 1833
More Info
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Distribution |
Off Rowley Shoals, Western Australia, Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea, and off the Great Barrier Reef and reefs in the Coral Sea, Queensland, to off Stockton Beach, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species is circumglobal in warm waters, often in association with jellyfishes, Sargassum spp. and flotsam. |
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Feeding |
Feeds mostly on planktonic organisms including copepods, amphipods, fish eggs and larvae, and chaetognaths. |
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Species Citation |
Psenes cyanophrys Valenciennes, in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1833, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons Vol. 9: 260, pl. 265. Type locality: New Ireland. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2019 |
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Resources |
Freckled Driftfish, Psenes cyanophrys Valenciennes 1833
References
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Allen, G.R. & Russell, B.C. 1986. Part VII Fishes. pp. 79-103 in Berry, P.F. (ed.) Faunal Surveys of the Rowley Shoals, Scott Reef and Seringapatam Reef, northwestern Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 25: 1-106
Gooding, R.M. & Magnuson, J.J. 1967. Ecological significance of a drifting object to pelagic fishes. Pacific Science 21: 486-497.
Haedrich, R.L. 1967. The stromateoid fishes; systematics and a classification. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 135(2): 31-139 figs 1-56
Last, P.R. 2001. Nomeidae, Ariommatidae, Tetragonuridae. pp. 3771-3785 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218.
Legaspi, V.A. 1956. A contribution to the life history of the nomeid fish Psenes cyanophrys Cuvier and Valenciennes. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and the Caribbean 6(3): 179-199.
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Rooker, J.R., Turner, J.P. & Holt, S.A. 2006. Trophic ecology os Sargassum-associated fishes in the Gulf of Mexico determined from stable isotopes and fatty acids. Marine Ecology Progress Series 313: 249-259.
Russell, B.C., Larson, H.K., Hutchins, J.B. & Allen, G.R. 2005. Reef fishes of the Sahul Shelf. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Supplement 1 2005: 83-105
Singh-Renton, S., Pina Amargos, F., Aiken, K.A., Dooley, J., Collette, B.B., Marechal, J. & Kishore, R. 2015. Psenes cyanophrys (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T16545253A115361438. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T16545253A16546219.en. Downloaded on 02 October 2019.
Valenciennes, A. in Cuvier, G.L. & Valenciennes, A. 1833. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : Levrault Vol. 9 512 pp. pls 246-279.
