FB-61237 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=61237 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Blenniiformes Blenniidae Ecsenius Ecsenius niue Springer, 2002 Meseda waspfish 2003-10-01 2014-02-04 Goren, M. and M. Dor0 An updated checklist of the fishes of the Red Sea (CLOFRES II). The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, Israel. 120 p. (Ref. 12541) Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.)0 Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of March 2003. Database dump. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in March 2003. (Ref. 46206) Golani, D. and S. V. Bogorodsky0 The fishes of the Red Sea - reappraisal and updated checklist. Zootaxa 2463:1-135. (Ref. 84159) Fricke, R., D. Golani, B. Appelbaum-Golani and U. Zajonz0 First record of the Meseda waspfish, <i>Neocentropogon mesedai</i> from the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea (Teleostei: Tetrarogidae). Mar Biodiv (2018) 48:1863-1866. (Ref. 122804) Beolens, B., M. Grayson and M. Watkins0 Eponym dictionary of Fishes. Dunbeath, Caithness (Scotland, UK): Whittles Publishing Limited, 1300 p. (Ref. 128868) IUCN0 The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1964 - onwards. https://www.iucnredlist.org/ (Ref. 130435) FB-DiagnosticDescr-61244 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2020-09-10 00:00:00 2020-09-10 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=61244 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution This species have the following characters: lacrymal with 2 spines and low nuchal ridge is without spine; pterotic, posttemporal and humeral have 1 spine each; two convex interorbital ridges with no spines, closest together above the centre of orbit; preopercle with 5 spines, the uppermost is the largest; opercle with 2 ridges, the upper ending in a spine; lower jaw protruding, with a small knob at the symphysis; gill rakers 9-10 + 1; lateral-line scales 22-23; dorsal fin beginning on the level of the posterior end of the pupil; D XIII,8 with the last ray attached to caudal peduncle by a membrane; A III,5 with the last ray attached to caudal peduncle by a membrane; pectoral-fin rays i,10,iii-iv (total 14-15); pelvic-fin I,5. Colouration: head and body light brown, the sides pale brown belly whitish; eye dark grey; peritoneum pale; dorsal fin light brown, membranes of spinous section distally blackish with the soft dorsal transparent, with irregular brown spots arranged in three oblique rows; anal fin pale, the membranes of spinous section distally dark brown, distal one-third of soft section with irregularbrown spots; pectoral fin with a basal brown blotch, an upper central vertical row of dark brown spots, distal one-third brown, with irregularly arranged dark brown spots; pelvic fin distally blackish; caudal fin pale, the upper half with 6 rows of irregularly arranged brown spots, lower half with four such rows, distal one-fourth dark brown (Ref. 122804). Fricke, R., D. Golani, B. Appelbaum-Golani and U. Zajonz 2018 First record of the Meseda waspfish, <i>Neocentropogon mesedai</i> from the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea (Teleostei: Tetrarogidae). Mar Biodiv (2018) 48:1863-1866. (Ref. 122804) FB-Morphology-61244 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2020-09-10 00:00:00 2020-09-10 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=61244 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses Dorsal spines (total): 13; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 5 Fricke, R., D. Golani, B. Appelbaum-Golani and U. Zajonz 2018 First record of the Meseda waspfish, <i>Neocentropogon mesedai</i> from the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea (Teleostei: Tetrarogidae). Mar Biodiv (2018) 48:1863-1866. (Ref. 122804) FB-Distribution-61244 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Cristina V. Garilao 2003-10-02 00:00:00 2025-10-14 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=61244 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#LifeCycle Western Indian Ocean: apparently endemic in the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Fricke, R., D. Golani, B. Appelbaum-Golani and U. Zajonz 2018 First record of the Meseda waspfish, <i>Neocentropogon mesedai</i> from the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea (Teleostei: Tetrarogidae). Mar Biodiv (2018) 48:1863-1866. (Ref. 122804) FB-Size-61244 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Cristina V. Garilao 2003-10-02 00:00:00 2020-09-10 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=61244 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#TrophicStrategy 6.5 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 122804)) Fricke, R., D. Golani, B. Appelbaum-Golani and U. Zajonz 2018 First record of the Meseda waspfish, <i>Neocentropogon mesedai</i> from the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea (Teleostei: Tetrarogidae). Mar Biodiv (2018) 48:1863-1866. (Ref. 122804) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-61244 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Cristina V. Garilao 2003-10-02 00:00:00 2020-09-10 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=61244 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats bathydemersal; marine; depth range 300 - 383 m (Ref. 122804) Fricke, R., D. Golani, B. Appelbaum-Golani and U. Zajonz 2018 First record of the Meseda waspfish, <i>Neocentropogon mesedai</i> from the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea (Teleostei: Tetrarogidae). Mar Biodiv (2018) 48:1863-1866. (Ref. 122804)