Straighthead soldierfish
| Straighthead soldierfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beryciformes |
| Family: | Holocentridae |
| Subfamily: | Myripristinae |
| Genus: | Ostichthys |
| Species: | O. archiepiscopus |
| Binomial name | |
| Ostichthys archiepiscopus Valenciennes, 1862[1] | |
The straighthead soldierfish (Ostichthys archiepiscopus) is a soldierfish species belonging to the Holocentridae family.
It is found in the Indian Ocean, near Mozambique, Reunion and Mauritius. Also found in the Pacific Ocean, near the Ryukyu Islands, Hawaii, Tahiti, Moorea. They are probably more widely distributed.[2]
Classification
The taxonomic classification of the Ostichthys archiepiscopus is as follows:
- Domain: Eukaryota
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
- Branch: Deuterostomia
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
- Superclass: Osteichthyes
- Class: Osteichthyes
- Subclass: Actinopterygii
- Infraclass: Actinopteri
- Cohort: Clupeocephala
- Superorder: Acanthopterygii
- Order: Beryciformes
- Suborder: Berycoidei
- Family: Holocentridae
- Subfamily: Myripristinae
- Genus: Myripristis
- Specific name: archiepiscopus
- Scientific name: - Myripristis archiepiscopus[3] [4]
Common names
The common names of the Ostichthys archiepiscopus in different languages are as follows:
- Cardinal : French (français)
- Esquilo focinhudo : Portuguese (Português)
- Langsnoet-soldaat : Afrikaans
- Longsnout soldier : English
- Marignan cuirassé : French (français)
- Oki-ebisu : Japanese (日本語)
- Straighthead soldierfish : English
- 皮氏骨鰃 : Mandarin Chinese
- 皮氏骨鳂 : Mandarin Chinese
- 長吻骨鰃 : Mandarin Chinese
- 长吻骨鳂 : Mandarin Chinese[5]
References
- ↑ Ostichthys archiepiscopus - The Taxonomicon
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Ostichthys archiepiscopus " in FishBase. July 2006 version.
- ↑ "Myripristis archiepiscopus (Straighthead soldierfish)". ZipcodeZoo. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ↑ "Ostichthys archiepiscopus (Valenciennes 1862)". Fish Wise. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ↑ "Longsnout soldier". The Website of Everything. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
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