Japanese gissu explained

Pterothrissus gissu, also known as the Japanese gissu, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Albulidae. The Japanese gissu is a rare fish that is distributed in deep water off northwest Pacific Ocean. This fish is known to pass through a leptocephalus larval stage, but only metamorphosed (after reaching the fully grown stage) specimens have been available.^[1] This species is the only member of its genus.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Tsukamoto, Y. (2002): Leptocephalus larvae of Pterothrissus gissu collected from the Kuroshio–Oyashio transition region of the western North Pacific, with comments on its metamorphosis. Ichthyological Research, 49 (3): 267-269.
2. Hidaka, K., Tsukamoto, Y. & Iwatsuki, Y. (2016): Nemoossis, a new genus for the eastern Atlantic long-fin bonefish Pterothrissus belloci Cadenat 1937 and a redescription of P. gissu Hilgendorf 1877 from the northwestern Pacific. Ichthyological Research, 64 (1): 45–53.