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High-crested mahi-mahi (Coryphaena) enters the LRT

Saturday, August 3, 2019 14:02

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The speedy maui-mahi (genus: Coryphaena, Fig. 1) nests in the large reptile tree (LRT, 1556 taxa) with the cave-swelling wolffish, Anarhichas (Fig. 2), basal to the barracuda and several other clades.

FIgure 1. Mahi-mahi (Coryphaena) mounted as if in vivo.

Figure 2. Anarhichas in vivo. Note the basic similarities between this cave dweller and its open seas cousin, Coryphaena (Fig. 1).

Coryphaena hippurus(Linneaus 1758; 1.5m length) is the extant open seas predator mahi-mahi or dolphinfish, here related to the similar, but slower cave-dwelling, Anarhichas (below). The dorsal fin starts at the skull. The caudal fin is deeply forked. The teeth are small. Males have a tall forehead.

Figure 2. This is where the high forehead of the male mahi-mahi (Corphaena) comes from, one of the very few fish with a frontal crest.

Anarhichas vomerinus (Linneaus 1758; 1.5m length) is the extant Atlantic wolffish. It nests between the perch clade an the barracuda, Sphyraena. The marginal and vomer teeth are robust. The conjoined temporal fenestra meet dorsally along a thin ridge. Pelvic fins are absent.

Figure 3. The skull of the wolffish, Anarhichas.

References
Linnaeus C 1758. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata.

wiki/Atlantic_wolffish
wiki/Mahi-mahi

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