Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Nomeidae > Nomeus > Nomeus gronoviiNomeus gronovii (Shepherd fish; Portuguese man-o'-war; Pastor; Man-o-war fish; Man-of-war fish; Bluebottle fish)Synonyms: Eleotris mauritii; Gobius albula (heterotypic); Gobius gronovii; Nomeus albula (heterotypic); Nomeus dyscritus; Nomeus gronovi; Nomeus maculatus; Nomeus maculosus; Nomeus mauritii; Nomeus oxyurus; Nomeus peronii Language: Afrikaans; Danish; French; German; Japanese; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Russian; Spanish; Swedish Nomeus gronovii, the man-of-war fish, is a species of fish in the family Nomeidae, the driftfish. It is native to the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, where adults are generally found at depths from 200 to 1,000 m (660 to 3,280 ft). It is notable for its ability to live within the deadly tentacles of a siphonophore, the Portuguese man o' war, upon whose tentacles and gonads it feeds. The fish is striped with blackish-blue blemishes covering its body, and the caudal fin is extremely forked. It can reach a length of 39 cm (15 in). It is of minor importance to commercial fisheries. This species is the only known member of its genus. |
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 2THE DIET OF MASKED, BROWN AND RED-FOOTED BOOBIES (SULIDAE: PELECANIFORMES) IN THE MONA PASSAGE, PUERTO RICO, Ricardo López-Ortiz, 2007, PhD Dissertation, UPR/RUM ♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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