Biology:Banjos (fish)

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Banjos
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Banjos banjos
Scientific classification e
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
Species

see text

Synonyms[3]
  • Anoplus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843

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

  1. 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. 
  2. 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. 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
  4. 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. 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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