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The rock gunnel is often mistaken for an eel due to its flattened, elongated body. Fully grown adults can reach 30 cm in length. A long dorsal fin spans the body from just behind the head, supported by soft spiny rays. Its anal fin begins roughly midway along the body. The head is rather small with its lower jaw protruding and mouth turned upwards.
The rockweed gunnel (Apodichthys fucorum), also known as the Fucus blenny, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Pholidae, the gunnels. [2] This species is found in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. They may often get mistaken with the Rock Gunnel, otherwise known as the Butterfish.
Pholidae is derived from the name of the type genus Pholis which is an Ancient Greek name for a fish that hides in a hole, the name dating at least as far in history as Aristotle. [ 4 ] The family has been spelled as Pholididae, and this is grammatically correct, but Article 29 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature permits the ...
The larger the Saddleback Gunnel’s body is, the larger the prey tends to be. It is observed that Saddleback Gunnel’s stomachs are fuller in the midmorning, rather than at night, suggesting the fish tend to consume prey in the morning. Young saddleback gunnel tends to live in eelgrass, where harpacticoid is widely available for consumption.
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Philos species have the elongate, compressed bodies of other gunnels. They differ on that there is no interorbital pore and that the head lacks scales or has small scales which are only present in larger adults. [6] These fishes vary in maximum published total length varying from 7.9 cm (3.1 in) in P. nea and 31 cm (12 in) in P. picta. [5]
The crescent gunnel was first formally described in 1873 by the American paleontologist and biologist Edward Drinker Cope with the type locality given as Sitka or Unalaska in Alaska. [2] The specific name laeta means "joyful", "glad" or "pleasant", Cope did not explain his choice of this name but did refer to the types as "rather brilliantly ...
The penpoint gunnel is mainly found in intertidal areas at depths between 0 and 1.8 m (0.0 and 5.9 ft). Geographically, it occurs from the Pacific coast of North America, ranging from Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska to Santa Barbara Island in southern California.