Painted sweetlips
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| Species: | D. pictum
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| Diagramma pictum (Thunberg, 1792)
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The painted sweetlips or slate sweetlips, Diagramma pictum, is a species of marine fish in the family Haemulidae.[1] It is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific region, Red Sea included.[2] This species reaches a length of 100 cm (39 in), but common size is 55 cm (22 in).[3]
As other fish, the painted sweetlips is the host of many parasites. These include the lepocreadiid digenean Holorchis castex and the monorchiid digenean Lasiotocus plectorhynchi in the intestine[4] and the cystidicolid nematode Metabronemoides mirabilis in the stomach.[5]
References
- ^ http://www.fishbase.org/comnames/CommonNamesList.php?ID=4465&GenusName=Diagramma&SpeciesName=pictum&StockCode=4662
- ^ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/60078
- ^ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/4465
- ^ Bray, R. A. & Justine, J.-L. 2007: Holorchis castex n. sp. (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) from the painted sweet-lips Diagramma pictum (Thunberg, 1792) (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from New Caledonia. Zootaxa, 1426, 51-56.
- ^ Moravec, F. E.; Justine, J. L. (2010). "Two new genera and species of cystidicolids (Nematoda, Cystidicolidae) from marine fishes off New Caledonia". Parasitology International. 59 (2): 198–205. doi:10.1016/j.parint.2010.01.005. PMID 20129064.
External links
- http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218536
- http://australianmuseum.net.au/Painted-Sweetlips-Diagramma-pictum-Thunberg-1792/
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