Oxymonacanthus longirostris

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Occurs in clear lagoon and seaward reefs from 0.5 to at least 30 m.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,455 meters (0 to -17,897 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Diet

Feeds exclusively on Acropora polyps.

Behavior

Found in pairs or small groups and nests near bases of dead corals , often on clumps of algae.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Balistes hispidus longirostris • Balistes hispidus longirostris Bloch & Schneider, 1801 • Balistes hispidus longirostris Bloch & Schneider • Oxymonacanthus longirostris • Oxymonacanthus longirostris (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) • Oxymonacanthus longirostris Bloch & Schneider 1801 • Oxymonocanthus longirostris • Oxymonocanthus longirostris (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) • Oxymonocanthus longirostris (Bloch & Schneider

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Bloch, M .E. and J.G. Schneider M.E. Blochii, systema ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini, Sumtibus Austoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum: Berlin. 584 p., 1801.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Oxymonacanthus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:

O. halli (Red Sea Longnose Filefish) · O. longirostris (Beaked Leatherjacket)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905. url p. 415.
• An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. url p. 220, p. 68.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 294, p. 82, p. 95.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 245, p. 248.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url , p. 447.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url , p. 124.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 233.
• Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. url , p. 173.
• Fishes of Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, and Tahiti. Honolulu, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1925. url p. 36.
• Fishes, New York, H. Holt and Company, 1907. url .
• From Ocean to Aquarium: the global trade in marine ornamental species. UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series 17 UNEP-WCMC url p. 45.
• NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 32.
• Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url , p. 117, p. 117.
• Occasional papers. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press. url p. 117.
• Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908-42. url , p. 124.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 1171, p. 59.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 376, p. 416.
• The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 316.
• The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. [By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale]. .. 1906 Washington, Government print off., 1906. url p. 445.
• The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 255, p. 286.
• The useful plants of the island of Guam; with an introductory account of the physical features and natural history of the island, of the character and history of its people, and of their agriculture / by William Edwin Safford. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905. url p. 412, p. 85.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 9 providers.
• Hutchins, Barry (from FishBase).
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Northern Barrier Marine Life (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 134158
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-26186
• Fishbase Species ID: 6559
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13785528
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 173232
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 119218

Footnotes

1. Mean = -1,532.400 meters (-5,027.559 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,639.590 based on 85 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

Curator for this page: Barry Hutchins. Date last reviewed: 12/30/1899

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