Biology:Procatopodinae

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Short description: Subfamily of fishes

Procatopodinae
Lamprichthys tanganicanus.JPG
Lamprichthys tanganicanus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Poeciliidae
Subfamily: Procatopodinae
Fowler, 1916[1]

Procatopodinae is a subfamily of the family Poeciliidae, the "livebearers", in the order Cyprinodontiformes.[2] Some authorities treat this subfamily as a family, the Procatopodidae, including the banded lampeye.[3]

Subdivisions

The subfamily Procatopodinae is divided into two tribes and 11 genera:[2]

References

  1. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer; Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 371. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/. 
  3. Pedro Bragança; Wilson J E M Costa (2019). "Multigene fossil-calibrated analysis of the African lampeyes (Cyprinodontoidei: Procatopodidae) reveals an early Oligocene origin and Neogene diversification driven by palaeogeographic and palaeoclimatic events". Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19 (2): 303–320. doi:10.1007/s13127-019-00396-1.  Abstract

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