Biology:Pristolepis
Pristolepis is a genus of fish in the family Pristolepididae, and a member of the order Anabantiformes. It is native to freshwater habitats in Southeast Asia and India's Western Ghats.
Their relationship to other members of the order was previously uncertain, with the 5th edition of Fishes of the World placing the family outside the order, alongside the Nandidae and Pristolepididae, in an unnamed and unranked but monophyletic clade.[1] However, they are now placed in the anantiform suborder Nandoidei.[2] Alongside the Nandidae, they are commonly known as "Asian leaffish".[3]
Potentially the oldest member of the family is the fossil genus Palaeopristolepis from the Bambanbor Formation of India, which is part of the Intertrappean Beds.[4] This formation was previously dated to the latest Cretaceous, but is now thought to only date to the Early Eocene.[5] However, the attribution of this genus to this family is questionable.[6]
Species
There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[7]
- Pristolepis fasciata (Bleeker, 1851) (Malayan leaffish)
- Pristolepis grootii (Bleeker, 1852) (Indonesian leaffish)
- Pristolepis malabarica (Günther, 1864)[citation needed]
- Pristolepis marginata Jerdon, 1849 (Malabar leaffish)
- Pristolepis pauciradiata Plamoottil & Win, 2017 (Myanmar leaffish)
- Pristolepis pentacantha Plamoottil, 2014 (Wayanad leaffish)
- Pristolepis procerus Plamoottil, 2017 (Deep-bodied leaffish)
- Pristolepis rubripinnis Britz, Krishna Kumar & Baby, 2012[8]
The fossil Palaeopristolepis contains two species from the same formation and locality, P. feddeni and P. chiplonkari.[9]
References
- ↑ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 394. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
- ↑ Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION" (in en). https://www.calacademy.org/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes-classification.
- ↑ Collins, Rupert A.; Britz, Ralf; Rüber, Lukas (2015). "Phylogenetic systematics of leaffishes (Teleostei: Polycentridae, Nandidae)". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 53 (4): 259–272. doi:10.1111/jzs.12103.
- ↑ Borkar, V. D. (1973-10-01). "Fossil fishes from the Inter-trappean beds of Surendranagar District, Saurashtra" (in en). Proceedings / Indian Academy of Sciences 78 (4): 181–193. doi:10.1007/BF03045500. ISSN 0370-0097. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03045500.
- ↑ Shah, Nishi H.; Patel, Satish J. (2024-12-01). "A new superfamily of freshwater mussels Deccanoidea nov. (Mollusca: Unionida) from an intertrappean deposit of Saurashtra province (Gujarat state, western India): An example of disjunct distribution" (in EN). Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 69 (2): 121–146. doi:10.1177/05529360241269345. ISSN 0552-9360. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/05529360241269345.
- ↑ Friedman, Matt; V. Andrews, James; Saad, Hadeel; El-Sayed, Sanaa (2023-06-16). "The Cretaceous–Paleogene transition in spiny-rayed fishes: surveying “Patterson’s Gap” in the acanthomorph skeletal record André Dumont medalist lecture 2018" (in en). Geologica Belgica. doi:10.20341/gb.2023.002. ISSN 1374-8505. https://popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/index.php?id=7048.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Pristolepis in FishBase. February 2019 version.
- ↑ Britz, Ralf; Kumar, Krishna; Baby, Fibin (2012). "Pristolepis rubripinnis, a new species of fish from southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Pristolepididae)". Zootaxa 3345: 59. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3345.1.3.
- ↑ Prasad, Guntupalli V.R. (2012-12-01). "Vertebrate biodiversity of the Deccan volcanic province of India: A review". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 183 (6): 597–610. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.183.6.597. ISSN 0037-9409. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sgf/bsgf/article-abstract/183/6/597/314056/Vertebrate-biodiversity-of-the-Deccan-volcanic?redirectedFrom=fulltext.
6. Plamoottil, M., 2014. Pristolepis pentacantha, a new fish species (Perciformes: Pristolepidae) from Kerala, India. Int'l. J. Scientific Res. 3(5):552-554.
7. Plamoottil, M. & Abraham,. N.P., Discovery of Pristolepis malabarica after one and a half centuries. Journal of Advanced Zoology, 34 (1). 28-35.
8. Plamoottil, M. and T. Win, 2017. Pristolepis pauciradiatus, a new fish species (Perciformes:Pristolepididae) from Myanmar. Bioscience Discovery (Ref. 116438)
9. Plamoottil, M. (2013). ‘Rediscovery of Pristolepis marginata Jerdon (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Pristolepididae) after one and a half century’. J. An. Vet. & Fish Sci., 7. 16-20.
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