Prof. Dr. Erasmo Macaya Horta, Chile
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Creating an entry about a new animal may take an hour, depending on data completeness and availability of initial scientific descriptions.
It is much more difficult to find a usable photo of the species or to get permission to use it.
In the case of Hypoplectrodes semicinctum, it took easily 4 years to obtain a photo and permission to use it, our especially big thanks for both goes to Prof. Dr. Erasmo Macaya Horta,
Professor of Algal Science in the Department of Oceanography, University of Concepción in Chile!
This particularly pretty endemic species is known from only a very few occurrences, including Robinsón Crusoe Island in the archipelago of the Juan Fernández Islands in Chile.
Interesting is the analysis of the food spectrum of this species, the perches feed mainly on fishes (ray-finned) and (decapod) decapods.
A photo of a fish larva of the species can be seen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/labitil/status/1281292863200952320
Hypoplectrodes semicinctum belongs to the flagfish subfamily (Anthiadinae).
Synonym: Plectropoma semicinctum Valenciennes, 1833
It is much more difficult to find a usable photo of the species or to get permission to use it.
In the case of Hypoplectrodes semicinctum, it took easily 4 years to obtain a photo and permission to use it, our especially big thanks for both goes to Prof. Dr. Erasmo Macaya Horta,
Professor of Algal Science in the Department of Oceanography, University of Concepción in Chile!
This particularly pretty endemic species is known from only a very few occurrences, including Robinsón Crusoe Island in the archipelago of the Juan Fernández Islands in Chile.
Interesting is the analysis of the food spectrum of this species, the perches feed mainly on fishes (ray-finned) and (decapod) decapods.
A photo of a fish larva of the species can be seen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/labitil/status/1281292863200952320
Hypoplectrodes semicinctum belongs to the flagfish subfamily (Anthiadinae).
Synonym: Plectropoma semicinctum Valenciennes, 1833
