Biology:Zanclidae
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Short description: Family of fishes
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Suborder: | Acanthuroidei |
| Family: | Zanclidae Bleeker, 1876[1] |
Zanclidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the suborder Acanthuroidei within the order Acanthuriformes. It contains one extant species, the Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus) and an extinct species.[2]
Genera and species
Zanclidae has the following taxa classified within it:[3][4]
- Genus † Eozanclus Blot and Voruz, 1975
- Species † Eozanclus brevirostris (Agassiz, 1835)
- Genus Zanclus Cuvier, 1831
- Species Zanclus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Moorish idol)
(† means extinct)
References
- ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer; Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480.
- ↑ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 497-502. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2023). "Zanclidae" in FishBase. February 2023 version.
- ↑ "Family Zanclidae (ray-finned fish)". Fossilworks. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=266346.
Wikidata ☰ Q13036449 entry
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