New Zealand dory
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| Cyttus novaezealandiae (Arthur, 1885) |
The New Zealand dory, Cyttus novaezealandiae, is a dory, in the genus Cyttus, found around southern Australia, and New Zealand, over the continental shelf at depths of between 20 and 400 m. Its length is between 20 and 30 cm.
The New Zealand dory is of typical dory shape and very similar to the king dory but the mouth is higher on the snout, and the fish is smaller. The mouth is large and extensible, able to accommodate a fish half the body size of the dory itself. High on the head the large bulbous eyes are independently moveable, each able to follow a separate object, a character shared by many fish but more obvious in the large-eyed dories.
The spiny dorsal and pelvic fins are small and black-tipped, the pelvics being distinctive in that they can be folded out of the way into a deep groove along the belly.
The body is a uniform silvery colour, sometimes with a golden sheen. The fins are pink.
[edit] References
- "Cyttus novaezealandiae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. April 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
