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Eschmeyer nexus
Eschmeyer nexus, the cofish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish; it is the only species in the monotypic genus Eschmeyer and monogeneric subfamily Eschmeyerinae. This fish is only known from the Pacific Ocean, near Fiji.
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Description
Eschmeyer nexus has eight spines and thirteen soft rays in the dorsal fin, with the first few dorsal fin spines being very short, while the anal fin has three spines and eight soft rays. All the fin rays are unbranched. The front part of the throat, the isthmus, does not have any fleshy papillae and the gill membranes do not have a wide junction with the isthmus. The frontal and parietal bones are well developed. There are no spines on the preorbital bone. The only scales are those on the lateral line which has ten tubed scales. There are no spiny projections to the rear of the caudal peduncle The pelvic fin membrane is joined to the body and is fused to the membrane of opposite pelvic fin. There is no detached pectoral fin ray. This is a small fish with a maximum standard length of 4.1 cm (1.6 in).
Range & habitat
Eschmeyer nexus is found in the western central Pacific Ocean where it has only been recorded from Fiji. It is a demersal fish.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 491544.