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Anisochaetodon (Lepidochaetodon) kleini   Bloch  1790 (Fish)
Organism information awaits expert curation

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Description
Size: 125 mm.

Color: In alcohol specimens yellowish or grayish with a brown transverse band from anterior dorsal spine to ventral, posterior part of body, beginning at anal, brownish, at least darker but easily fading in alcohol, the scales may here show a dark (in life red) spot, usually easily fading but sometimes preserved and imitating lines following the series of scales, a blackish ocular band, about as broad as eye from nape to chest, it joins its fellow above and below and reaches to base of ventrals, lips and end of snout dusky, ventrals blackish, soft dorsal and anal with hyaline margin and intra marginal narrow blackish line, caudal dusky with broad pale margin. Young specimens below four cm. length have a nearly complete white-edged brown ocellus in soft dorsal near border between fourth and nineteenth ray, their second dorsal spine is also by far the longest, the following spines decreasing in height posteriorly, this proportion changes gradually with growth.

Compressed, orbicular, dorsal profile more convex than ventral, rostro-dorsal profile steeply convex, slightly concave above eye, height 1.4-1.6, head 3-3.5 in length. Eye 3 to slightly more than 3.5, closer to tip of snout than to opercular border, its lower margin touching horizontal through gape of mouth, about equal to broadly convex inter orbital space, in adult slightly greater than obtuse, bluntly pointed snout, mouth very small, its gape horizontal, jaws equal. Preoperculum entire or scarcely dentate. Scales rounded, in anterior half of trunk rhombic, about twice larger than posteriorly, much smaller on head, chest and median fins, along base of third to about eight dorsal spine very large and rhombic, series below lateral line slightly curved downward, lateral line arched till about below end of spinous dorsal, thence oblique till end of dorsal. Spinous dorsal in young equal to, in adult about four spines longer than soft, spines strong, increasing in height till fifth or sixth, which equal head without snout, the following spines sub equal, soft dorsal a little higher, evenly rounded, anal likewise, its third spine the longest, 1.2-1.3 in head. Pectorals as long as head, ventrals somewhat shorter, not reaching vent, their spine about 1.3 in head. Caudal truncate, least height of its peduncle scarcely more than diameter of eye.

Remarks: Values in above description denote proportions.

Biogeography


• INDIA (Record: 1936)

Literature Source(s)

• Weber, M; Beaufort, LF (1936) The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago Print times, Pataudi house, Daryaganj, New Delhi 7 607 pp Available at - NIO, Goa

• Society for the Management of European Biodiversity Data (2009) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Available at - http://www.marinespecies.org

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