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man-of-war fish (Nomeus gronovii)
Subject: man-of-war fish (Nomeus gronovii)
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man-of-war fish (Nomeus gronovii)


Français : Poisson des physalies (Nomeus gronovii).
English: Man-of-war-fish (Nomeus gronovii).
Date 25 March 2015, 03:20:12
Source http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/rcb/photogallery/flescher.html
Author Donald Flescher, NOAA Fisheries
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man-of-war-fish.jpg

The man-of-war fish or bluebottle fish (Nomeus gronovii) is a species of fish in the family Nomeidae, the driftfish. It is native to the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is notable for its ability to live within the deadly tentacles of a siphonophore, the Portuguese man o' war, upon whose tentacles and gonads it feeds.
Order: Perciformes
Family: Nomeidae
Genus: Nomeus
Species: Nomeus gronovii (J. F. Gmelin, 1789)
Synonyms:
Gobius albula Meuschen, 1781 (ambiguous)
Gobius gronovii J. F. Gmelin, 1789
Eleotris mauritii Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801
Nomeus mauritii (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801)
Nomeus maculosus E. T. Bennett, 1831
Nomeus peronii Valenciennes, 1833
Nomeus maculatus Valenciennes, 1840
Nomeus oxyurus Poey, 1860
Nomeus dyscritus Whitley, 1931

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