Cyttopsis rosea
Red Dory
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G5
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Zeiformes (Dories)
Zeidae (Dories)
Cyttopsis
Cyttopsis rosea (Red Dory)
Description
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Characters
Deep bodied and compressed, with a large mouth; a row of low, bony ridges along bases of rayed dorsal fin and anal fin; small, deciduous cycloid scales. Jaw teeth are villiform and granular and are arranged in bands. Vomer has similar teeth. Gill rakers are rudimentary and number 1 on epibranch and 8 to 10 on lower limb. Head length is 37% to 41.7%, body depth is 50% to 58.8%, distance between pelvic fin base origins is 10% to 13%, and caudal peduncle depth is 5.3% to 6.7% of SL. Eye diameter is 34.5% to 43.5% of head length. Pectoral fin has 13 or 14 rays. Dorsal fin has seven or eight spines and 28 to 30 rays. Pelvic fin has 9 or 10 segmented rays and no spine. Anal fin has one or two compressed spines and 28 to 30 rays. Caudal fin has 3 or 4 spiny, unsegmented, procurrent rays anterior to principal rays. Lateral scale rows number 73 to 84 between upper opercular margin and caudal fin base. Bony scutes are located along ventral midline from isthmus to anus.
Color is uniform reddish.
Distribution
Southeastern United States to the Caribbean Sea, including the northern Gulf of Mexico
Habitat Associations
Tropical to warm temperate waters between 250 and 600 m
Biology
Food consists of pelagic crustaceans and fishes
Maximum known size is 300 mm SL
Occurs on the continental slope (Ref. 75154). Bathypelagic (Ref. 5951). Forms schools. Feeds on other fishes and swimming decapod crustaceans (Ref. 4968).
Reproductive mode: dioecism; fertilization: external; nonguarders (open water/substratum egg scatterers); parental care: none.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2014-07-10.
Phylogeny and Morphologically Similar Fishes
Distinguished from the other species of the family by the combination of characters described
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: commercial.
References
Heemstra 1980
Heemstra 1986h
Uyeno et al. 1983
Quero 1986a
C. R. Robins et al. 1986
Boschung 1992
Heemstra, P.C. (1986) Zeidae. p. 435-438. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Karrer, C. and A. Post (1990) Zeidae. p. 631-633. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2.
May, J.L. and J.G.H. Maxwell (1986) Trawl fish from temperate waters of Australia. CSIRO Division of Fisheries Research, Tasmania. 492 p.
Heemstra, P.C. (1995) Additions and corrections for the 1995 impression. p. v-xv. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Revised Edition of Smiths' Sea Fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Uyeno, T., K. Matsuura and E. Fujii (eds.) (1983) Fishes trawled off Suriname and French Guiana. Japan Marine Fishery Resource Research Center, Tokyo, Japan. 519 p.
Patzner, R.A. (2008) Reproductive strategies of fish. pp. 311-350. In Rocha, M.J., A. Arukwe and B.G. Kapoor (eds). Fish reproduction: cytology, biology and ecology. Science Publisher, Inc. Oxford. 631 p.
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