Biology:Pristolepis

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Pristolepis
Pristolepis Pentacantha.jpg
Pristolepis pentacantha
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Superorder: Acanthopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Family: Pristolepididae
T. R. Roberts, 1989
Genus: Pristolepis
Jerdon, 1849
Type species
Pristolepis marginatus
Jerdon, 1849
Synonyms[1]
  • Catopra Bleeker, 1851
  • Paranandus Day, 1865

Pristolepis is a genus of fish in the family Pristolepididae sometimes classified in the order Anabantiformes native to freshwater habitats in Southeast Asia and India's Western Ghats. This genus is the only member of its family, a family which, with the families Nandidae and Polycentridae is a group of taxa which are sisters to the Anabantiformes and form part of an unnamed and unranked clade within the series Ovalentaria, closest to the Carangiformes.[2] These three families share the common name "leaffish" .[3]

Species

There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus:[4]

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Pristolepididae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Pristolepididae. 
  2. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 395. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/. Retrieved 2019-12-10. 
  3. 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. 
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Pristolepis in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  5. 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. 

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