Sokogisu - Sping eel

Japanese: ソコギス - そこぎす(英語表記)sping eel
Sokogisu - Sping eel

This marine fish belongs to the order Notacanthus of the class Osteichthyes and the family Notacanthuidae. It is found in the North Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea, and off the coast of New Zealand. Its body is long and slender, especially its tail. Its snout protrudes, and its mouth is small and opens ventrally. Its dorsal fin has 32-35 spines spaced apart, but no soft rays. Its anal fin is well developed with a long base. It lacks a caudal fin. Its body is dark brown, and its pectoral fins are black. It passes through a leptocephalus-type larval stage. It grows to a total length of just over 50 centimeters. It lives in the deep sea, at depths of 700-3700 meters, and is occasionally caught with bottom trawls. In addition to this species, Japan also has the black notacanthus and the fox notacanthus , but these have fewer spines on their dorsal fins, less than 13. The bladderwort is placed in a separate family, the Brachyurus gracilis, because its dorsal fin is made up of spines and soft rays.

[Akira Ochiai and Kunio Amano]

[References] | Black cicada | Tanuki cicada

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

硬骨魚綱ソコギス目ソコギス科に属する海水魚。北太平洋、ベーリング海、ニュージーランド沖に分布する。体は細長く、とくに尾部は細い。吻(ふん)が突出し、口は小さくて腹面に開く。背びれには互いに離れた32~35本の棘(とげ)があるが、軟条はない。臀(しり)びれはよく発達して基底が長い。尾びれを欠く。体は暗褐色で胸びれは黒い。レプトセファルス型の幼生期を経る。全長50センチメートル余りになる。水深700~3700メートルの深海にすみ、底引網でまれに漁獲される。日本には本種のほかにクロソコギスとキツネソコギスNotacanthus abbottiがいるが、背びれの棘が少なく、13本以下である。タヌキソコギスは、背びれが棘と軟条からなることで、別のタヌキソコギス科に入る。

[落合 明・尼岡邦夫]

[参照項目] | クロソコギス | タヌキソコギス

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