Ara (fish)

{{Short description|Species of ray-finned fish}} {{Speciesbox | image = Niphon spinosus Oga Aquarium 2.jpg | taxon = Niphon spinosus | grandparent_authority = D. S. Jordan, 1923<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230}}</ref> | parent_authority = Cuvier, 1828 | authority = Cuvier, 1828 }}

The '''ara''' ('''''Niphon spinosus'''''), otherwise known as the saw-edged perch or the Dageumbari (다금바리) is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the monospecific genus '''''Niphon''''' in the monogeneric family '''Niphonidae'''.<ref name="ECoF">{{Catalog of Fishes |family=Bembropidae |list=genus |access-date=17 November 2024}}</ref> It is found in the Western Pacific Ocean from Japan south to the Philippines where it inhabits rock reefs and inshore waters with rocky sea beds. This species can grow up to {{convert|1|m|ft}} in total length.<ref name = Fishbase>{{Fishbase|Niphon|spinosus|month=December|year=2019}}</ref> The ara was first formally described in 1828 by Georges Cuvier in the ''Histoire naturelle des poissons'' which he co-authored with Achille Valenciennes, the type locality was given as the Sea of Japan.<ref name = CofF>{{Cof record | spid = 20013 | title = ''Niphon spinosus'' | access-date = 7 June 2020}}</ref>

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Category:Percoidei Category:Fish described in 1828 Category:Taxa named by Georges Cuvier