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Family Aulopidae(Aulopus) Distributes in tropical and subtropical seas; Atlantic(including the Mediterranean) and Pacific. A small family of bottom-dwelling fishes with 4 genera and about 15 species world-wide. Commonly known as flagfins. The aulopids resemble lizardfishes in appearance. The body is moderately elongate and slender, cylindrical, posteriorly tapering Head large, robust, triangular about 30 % of SL with large mouth and pointed teeth. Teeth fine, sharp and curved, upper jaw with two inner rows of larger teeth. Upper jaw expanded posteriorly with two supramaxillaries, reaching to or beyond the eye centre. Snout relatively long and depressed. Eyes large, elliptical, about the size of the snout length.
With large dorsal fin. Origin of dorsal fin in anterior third of body, and with moderately long-based, the anterior 2–4 rays with an elongate filament on males. The second dorsal fin is a small adipose fin. located above midpoint of anal fin. ventral fins broad. Caudal fin forked. Presence of small bony scutes(fulcral scales(※spike-like scales that occur along the anterior edge of a fin) preceding the procurrent caudal rays. Lateral line complete, with 47–53 scales. With no fin-spines. Dorsal rays 14-22. Anal fin with 9-13 rays. Pelvic fin with 9 rays; thoracic. Pectoral fin with 11-14 rays. Pelvic fin large, longer than pectoral and with 9 rays. Vertebrae 36-53. Gill-rakers on first arch, 12–15 , including rudiments. Scales on upper body spinoid to ctenoid, largest on gill cover. Snout, top of head, and mandible, naked; belly and breast covered by cycloid scales. Supramaxillae 2. Orbitosphenoid present.
Color; greenish-brown to olive with darker saddles and lateral blotches. Head darker, purplish to pink. Upper body and head suffused with yellow. Dorsal fin tip black. Males are more brightly colored, with red, orange, and yellow markings and bars on fins, but females might also present smaller reddish to orange marks on fins; in life the scales are iridescent with transverse bands, and the belly silvery to whitish or light pink; adipose fin tip yellowish-green to orange.
Size range up to 60 cm in length. They are bottom-dwelling fish, living at depths of 1,000 m. Reproductive Nonguarders. These reddish ambush predators rest on the bottom on the pelvic and caudal fins.
홍메치과 15종 명단 15 Species in Family Aulopidae
•Aulopus bajacali(Parin & Kotlyar, 1984). Eastern Pacific flagfin
•Aulopus cadenati (Poll, 1953). Guinean flagfin
•Aulopus filamentosus(Bloch, 1792). Royal flagfin
•Hime capitonis(Gomon & Struthers, 2015). New Caledonian flagfin
•Hime caudizoma(Gomon & Struthers, 2015). Indonesian flagfin
•Hime curtirostris(Thomson, 1967). Shortsnout threadsail
•Hime diactithrix(Prokofiev, 2008)
•Hime formosana(Lee & Chao, 1994)
•Hime japonica(Günther, 1877). Japanese thread-sail fish 히메치(한국명)
•Hime microps(Parin & Kotlyar, 1989)
•Hime pyrhistion(Gomon, Struthers & Stewart, 2013). Flaming flagfin
•Hime surrubea(Gomon & Struthers, 2015). Rosy flagfin
•Latropiscis purpurissatus(Richardson, 1843). Sergeant baker
•Leptaulopus damasi(Tanaka, 1915)
•Leptaulopus erythrozonatus(Gomon, Struthers & Stewart, 2013). Duckbill flagfin
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