Japanese gissu

Japanese gissu
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Albuliformes
Family: Albulidae
Genus: Pterothrissus
Species: P. gissu
Binomial name
Pterothrissus gissu
Hilgendorf, 1877

The Japanese gissu, Pterothrissus gissu, is a saltwater fish species of the Albulidae family.[1] The Japanese Gissu is a rare albulid fish that is distributed in deep water off Japan. This fish is known to pass through a leptocephalus larval stage, but only metamorphosed (after reaching the fully grown stage) specimens have been available.[2]

References

  1. "Japanese gissu". redorbit.com. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
  2. Youichi Tsukamoto (2002). Leptocephalus larvae of Pterothrissus gissu collected from the Kuroshio–Oyashio transition region of the western North Pacific, with comments on its metamorphosis (Springer Japan) 49 (3): 267–269. doi:10.1007/s102280200038 http://www.springerlink.com/content/clkm45edg8jf2bl8/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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