Biology:Banjos (fish)
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Short description: Genus of fishes
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| Banjos banjos | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Percoidei |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Banjosidae D.S. Jordan and W.F. Thompson, 1912[2] |
| Genus: | Banjos Bleeker, 1876[1] |
| Type species | |
| Anoplus banjos Richardson, 1846
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Banjos is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, the only genus in the monotypic family Banjosidae, which is part of the perciform superfamily Percoidea.[4] They are native to the western Indian and the Atlantic coasts of Africa,[5] and is made up of the three species of banjofishes.[5]
Species
Banjos have three currently recognised species:[5][3]
- Banjos aculeatus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Eastern Australian banjofish)
- Banjos banjos (John Richardson, 1846) (Banjofish)
- Banjos peregrinus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Timor Sea banjofish)
References
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Banjos". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=3837.
- ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer; Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mizuki Matsunuma; Hiroyuki Motomura (2017). "Review of the genus Banjos (Perciformes: Banjosidae) with descriptions of two new species and a new subspecies". Ichthyological Research 64 (3): 265–294. doi:10.1007/s10228-016-0569-9. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10228-016-0569-9. Abstract
- ↑ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 444. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Banjos in FishBase. December 2019 version.
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