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The louvar or luvar, ''Luvaris imperialis'', is a species of perciform fish, the only extant species in the genus ''Luvaris'' and family Luvaridae. It is closely related to the surgeonfish. The juvenile form has a pair of spines near the base of the tail, like the surgeonfish, though they are lost in the adult. It is a large, ellipsoidal fish, growing to long, though most do not exceed . The greatest weight recorded for this species is . It is pink in color and possesses a characteristic bulging forehead. It is found in surface waters of temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world where it can be found at depths of from near the surface to . It feeds on jellyfish, ctenophores, and other soft-bodied planktonic animals. It is hardly ever found in fish markets in the United States, only as bycatch, but is prized as an eating fish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Louvar: A Fish You May Never Taste. )〕 ==Extinct taxa== One extinct species in the genus ''Luvaris'' and two extinct genera are only known from fossils dating back to the Paleogene, three extinct genera if one includes ''Kushlukia'' of the monotypic Kushlukiidae: * ''Luvaris necopinatus'' (from the Danata formation) * ''Avitoluvarus'' (from the Danata Formation) * ''Beerichthys'' (from the London Clay fauna) * ''Kushlukia'' (sister taxon of Luvaridae) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louvar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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