Biology:Priacanthus
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Short description: Genus of fishes
Priacanthus | |
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Priacanthus hamrur | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Priacanthidae |
Genus: | Priacanthus Oken, 1817 |
Type species | |
Anthias macrophthalmus Bloch, 1792[1]
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Synonyms[1] | |
Boops Gronow, 1854 |
Priacanthus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Priacanthidae, the bigeyes. As of 2012 there are 12 species in the genus.[2]
Species
The following species are classified within the genus Priacanthus:
- Priacanthus alalaua Jordan & Evermann, 1903 - Alalaua
- Priacanthus arenatus Cuvier, 1829 - Atlantic bigeye
- Priacanthus blochii Bleeker, 1853 - Paeony bulleye
- Priacanthus fitchi Starnes, 1988
- Priacanthus hamrur (Forsskål, 1775) - Moontail bullseye
- Priacanthus macracanthus Cuvier, 1829 - Red bigeye
- Priacanthus meeki Jenkins, 1903 - Hawaiian bigeye
- Priacanthus nasca Starnes, 1988
- Priacanthus prolixus Starnes, 1988 - Elongate bulleye
- Priacanthus sagittarius Starnes, 1988 - Arrow bulleye
- Priacanthus tayenus Richardson, 1846 - Purple-spotted bigeye
- Priacanthus zaiserae Starnes & Moyer, 1988
- † Priacanthus liui Tao, 1993
† means extinct
Cladogram
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Priacanthidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Priacanthidae.
- ↑ Goren, M., et al. (2010). First record of the Indo-Pacific arrow bulleye Priacanthus sagittarius Starnes, 1988 in the Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Invasions 5 (Suppl 1), S45-S47.
References
- Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Priacanthus. FishBase. 2015.
- Catalogue of Life
Wikidata ☰ Q2964100 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priacanthus.
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