Japanese Rubyfish, Erythrocles schlegelii (Richardson 1846)
Other Names: Pacific Rover
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Summary:
A bluish-grey to reddish-orange rubyfish, becoming pale silvery pink below, with reddish-orange caudal and pectoral fins.
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Bray, D.J. 2022, Erythrocles schlegelii in Fishes of Australia, accessed 10 Mar 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/4781
Japanese Rubyfish, Erythrocles schlegelii (Richardson 1846)
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Distribution |
Off Rottnest Island, Western Australia, around the tropical north, to off Moreton Bay, Queensland, and reefs in the Coral Sea; also at Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west Pacific (South Africa, South China Sea and Japan). |
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Features |
Dorsal fin XI, 10-12; Anal fin III, 9-10. |
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Feeding |
Reportedly feeds mostly on sergistid shrimps, and also on small mesopelagic fishes of the families Myctophidae, Astronesthidae and Paralepididae. |
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Biology |
In epipelagic waters off the coast of the Philippines, larval and juvenile Japanese Rubyfish were photographed closely associating with the pelagic salp Pegea confoederata, either drifting alongside a colony of salps or residing inside individual salp cavities (Pastana et al. 2022). |
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Species Citation |
Emmelichthys schlegelii Richardson 1846, Report of the 15th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1845: 272. Type locality: Nagasaki, Japan. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2022 |
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Japanese Rubyfish, Erythrocles schlegelii (Richardson 1846)
References
Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & Kailola, P.J. 1984. Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwest Australia. Jakarta : Dir. Gen. Fish. (Indonesia), German Tech. Coop., Aust. Dev. Ass. Bur. 406 pp.
Heemstra, P.C. & Randall, J.E. 1977. A revision of the Emmelichthyidae (Pisces : Perciformes). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 28: 361-396 figs 1-5
Pastana, M.N.L., Girard, M.G., Bartick, M.I. & Johnson, G.D. 2022. A Novel Association between larval and juvenile Erythrocles schlegelii (Teleostei: Emmelichthyidae) and pelagic tunicates. Ichthyology & Herpetology 110(4): 675-679, https://doi.org/10.1643/i2022008
Nor, L.A., Kykharev, N.N. & Zaytiev, A.K. 1985. The biology of Erythrocles schlegeli (Richardson) (Emmelichthyidae) of the South China Sea. Journal of Ichthyology 25(2):146-149.
Richardson, J. 1846. Report on the ichthyology of the seas of China and Japan. Report of the 15th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1845: 187-320
Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds) 1986. Smith's Sea Fishes. Johannesburg : Macmillan South Africa xx + 1047 pp. 144 pls.
