- Classification
- ACTINOPTERYGII
- ZEIFORMES
- ZENIONTIDAE
- Zenion
- japonicum
Japanese Dory, Zenion japonicum Kamohara 1934
Japanese Dory, Zenion japonicum. Source: Ken J. Graham / NSW Fisheries. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Summary:
A bighead dory with a silvery body, a black tip to the first dorsal fin, and a pinkish caudal fin with a black margin. Bighead dories have a relatively slender body, a large head with exposed sculptured bones, a very large eye, an almost vertical upturned mouth, and strong fin spines.
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Dianne J. Bray, Zenion japonicum in Fishes of Australia, accessed 12 Oct 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1488
Japanese Dory, Zenion japonicum Kamohara 1934
More Info
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Distribution |
Continental slope off Cape York, Queensland, to east of Lakes Entrance, Victoria. Inhabits seamounts, ridges and rises. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical west-Pacific. |
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Species Citation |
Zenion japonicum Kamohara 1934, Proc. Imperial Acad. Japan 10(9): 597, fig. Type locality: off Mimase, near Kochi, Japan. (A neotype from off Mimase, near Kochi, Japan, designated by Kamohara 1961, is not regarded as valid as the work was not a revision). |
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Author |
Dianne J. Bray |
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Resources |
Japanese Dory, Zenion japonicum Kamohara 1934
References
Heemstra, P.C. 1999. Families Parazenidae, Macrocyttidae, Zeidae, Grammicolepididae, Caproidae. pp. 2257-2261 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. 4 pp. 2069-2790 (as a synonym of Zenion hololepis).
Kamohara, T. 1934. On a new fish Zenion japonicum, from Japan. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Japan 10(9): 597-599 1 fig.
Kamohara, T. 1961. Notes on the type specimens of fishes in my laboratory. Report of the USA Marine Biological Station 8(2): 1–9 pls 1–7.
Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (eds) 1984. The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokyo : Tokai University Press Vol. 1–2 437 pp. 247 figs 370 pls.
Nakabo, T. (ed.) 2002. Fishes of Japan with pictorial keys to the species. English edition. Tokyo : Toikai University Press pp. 867-1749.
Okamura, O., Amaoka, K. & Mitani, F. (eds) 1982. Fishes of the Kyushu-Palau Ridge and Tosa Bay. The intensive research of unexploited fishery resources on continental slopes. Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association, Tokyo 1-435.
Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E., Bray, D.J. & Hoese, D.F 2006. Zeniontidae. pp. 795-796 in Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp.
