Rosenblattia robusta
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| Rosenblattia robusta Mead & De Falla, 1965 |
Rosenblattia robusta is a species of deepwater cardinalfish, the only member of the genus Rosenblattia, found circumglobally in southern temperate waters. Its length is between 5 and 12 cm.
Rosenblattia robusta is deep bodied with a humped back above the pectoral fin area, and a single keel on each side of the caudal peduncle.
Adults are a uniform golden brown with a black lining to the mouth and gill cavity. Juvenile fish are a pale gold with a white caudal peduncle separated by a black band that continues forward along the dorsal and anal fin bases.
This species is a plankton feeder with curved conical teeth that lives in midwater on the boundary between the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones.
[edit] References
- "Rosenblattia robusta". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. March 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
