Biology:Oceanic basslets

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Short description: Family of ray-finned fishes

Oceanic basslets
Temporal range: Late Eocene-present
Howella brodiei
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Superfamily: Percoidea
Family: Howellidae
Ogilby, 1899[1]
Genera[2]

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The oceanic basslets are ray-finned fish that belong to the small family Howellidae within the order Acropomatiformes. The family includes about 9 species. They are mostly deep-water species, some of which move to shallower waters at night. Various species are found in the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, including the Coral Sea, and Atlantic Ocean, including the Caribbean Sea.[3]

Genera

The following three genera are classified as part of the Howellidae:[2][4]

The potential fossil genus Praegaleagra David, 1946 is known from isolated scales from the Late Eocene of California.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 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. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Howellidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  3. ↑ "Basslets" at AnimalSpot web site Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Howellidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Howellidae. 
  5. ↑ David, Lorre R. (1946). "Some Typical Upper Eogene Fish Scales from California". Contributions to Paleontology IV. https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/v03cm-86s21. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q142285 entry




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