Biology:Thornfish
| Thornfishes | |
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| Cottoperca gobio Drawing by Angel | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Notothenioidei |
| Family: | Bovichtidae T. N. Gill, 1861 |
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Bovichtus | |
The thornfishes are a family, Bovichtidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. The family is spelled Bovichthyidae in J. S. Nelson's Fishes of the World. They are native to coastal waters off Australia , New Zealand, and South America, and to rivers and lakes of southeast Australia and Tasmania. They are one of two families of the suborder Notothenioidei with a primarily non-Antarctic distribution.,[2] the other being Pseudaphritidae.
Phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters has revealed that the family Bovichtidae is not a monophyletic group.[3][4]
Genera
Currently, three genera are included in this family, with the genus Pseudaphritis (Castelnau, 1872) now being placed in its own family, Pseudaphritidae.[1][5]
References
- "Bovichtidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=171100. Retrieved 25 March 2006.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Bovichtidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ↑ Eastman, Joseph (1993),Pseudaphritidae. Antarctic Fish Biology: Evolution in a Unique Environment. San Diego, California: Academic Press, Inc.
- ↑ Balushkin, A. V. (1992) "Classification, phylogenetic relationships, and origins of the families of the suborder Notothenioidei (Perciformes)" Journal of Ichthyology 32: pp. 90–110
- ↑ Lecointre, G. et al. (1997) "Molecular phylogeny of the Antarctic fishes: paraphyly of the Bovichitidae and no indication for the monophyly of the Notothenioidei (Teleostei)" Polar Biology 18: pp. 193–208
- ↑ Eastman, J. T. & Eakin, R. R. (2000): An updated species list for notothenioid fish(Perciformes; Notothenioidei), with comments on Antarctic species. Archive of Fishery and Marine Research, 48(1), 2000, 11–20
Wikidata ☰ Q1313669 entry
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