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Artedidraconidae
The Artedidraconidae, barbeled plunderfishes, are a family of marine ray-finned fishes, notothenioids belonging to the Perciform suborder Notothenioidei. The family comprises four genera. These fishes are endemic to deep waters off Antarctica. Taxonomy Artedidraconidae was first described as a family in 1988 by the American ichthyologist Richard Eakin with ''Artedidraco'' as its type genus, the type species of '' Artedidraco'' is '' A. mirus'' which was described in 1905 by the Swedish zoologist Einar Lönnberg. The genera in the family were previously classified as part of the Harpagiferidae. The family is classified within the suborder Notothenioidei of the order Perciformes. The name of the family is a compound of Artedi, honouring the Swedish naturalist Peter Artedi who was known as the "father of ichthyology", and who was born 200 years before Lönnberg described ''A. mirus'' with ''draco'', from ''dracœna'' meaning "dragon" an ancient Greek name for the weeverfish ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pogonophryne
''Pogonophryne'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Artedidraconidae, the barbeled plunderfishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy ''Pogonophryne'' was first described as a genus in 1914 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan when he described a new species of fish, ''Pogonophryne scotti'', which had been collected on the Terra Nova Expedition in the Ross Sea. ''P. scotti'' is, therefore, the type species of ''Pogonophryne'' by monotypy. The genus name is a compound of ''pogonos'' meaning "beard", a reference to the barbel on the chin of ''P. scotti'', and "phryne" which means "toad", possibly an allusion to the bumps and knobs on the head, like the skin of a toad. Species There are currently 28 recognized species in this genus: * '' Pogonophryne albipinna'' Eakin, 1981 (White-fin plunderfish) * '' Pogonophryne barsukovi'' Andriashev, 1967 (Stub-beard plunderfish) * '' Pogonophryne bellingshausenensis'' Eakin, Eastman & M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artedidraco Mirus
''Artedidraco'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Artedidraconidae, the barbeled plunderfishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy ''Artedidraco'' was first described as a genus in 1905 by the Swedish zoologist Einar Lönnberg when he created the genus for ''Artedidraco mirus'', a new species of fish from South Georgia he was Species description, describing following the collection of its Type (biology), types by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition. As it was the only species in the new genus it was the type species by monotypy. The generic name is a compound of Artedi, honouring the Swedish naturalist Peter Artedi who was known as the "father of ichthyology", and who was born 200 years before Lönnberg described ''A. mirus'' with ''draco'', from ''dracœna'' meaning "dragon" an ancient Greek name for the weeverfish genus ''Trachinus'' , although this may be a reference to the relationship Lönnberg mentioned to ''Draconett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artedidraco
''Artedidraco'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Artedidraconidae, the barbeled plunderfishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy ''Artedidraco'' was first described as a genus in 1905 by the Swedish zoologist Einar Lönnberg when he created the genus for ''Artedidraco mirus'', a new species of fish from South Georgia he was describing following the collection of its types by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition. As it was the only species in the new genus it was the type species by monotypy. The generic name is a compound of Artedi, honouring the Swedish naturalist Peter Artedi who was known as the "father of ichthyology", and who was born 200 years before Lönnberg described ''A. mirus'' with ''draco'', from ''dracœna'' meaning "dragon" an ancient Greek name for the weeverfish genus ''Trachinus'' , although this may be a reference to the relationship Lönnberg mentioned to ''Draconetta'' which was thought to be a member of the Notothen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Histiodraco
''Histiodraco'' is a monotypic genus of marine ray-finned fish, its only known species being ''Histiodraco velifer'', belonging to the family Artedidraconidae, the barbeled plunderfishes. It is native to the Southern Ocean and the waters around Antarctica. Taxonomy The English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan recognised ''Histiodraco'' as a distinct genus for the first time in 1914. In 1914, Regan described a fish collected on the Terra Nova Expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott under the name ''Dolloidraco velifer'', with the type locality given as McMurdo Sound. However, later that year, he described the new genus ''Histiodraco'' for ''D. velifer'', this species becoming the type species of that genus by monotypy. The generic name is a compound of ''histion'', which means "sail", and ''draco'', which is likely a reference to the genus '' Dolloidraco'', to which Regan had originally assigned this species and then proposed this genus shortly after describing its sole m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolloidraco Longedorsalis
''Dolloidraco'' is a monotypic genus of marine ray-finned fish, its only known species being ''Dolloidraco longedorsalis'', belonging to the family Artedidraconidae, the barbeled plunderfishes. It is native to the Southern Ocean in the waters around Antarctica. Taxonomy ''Dolloidraco'' was first formally described as a genus in 1913 by the French zoologist Louis Roule in his description of ''D. longedorsalis'' which had been collected on the French Antarctic Expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot from 1904-1907. The type locality was given as Marguerite Bay and Jenny Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. The generic name compounds Dollo, honouring the Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo who published on Antarctic fishes, with ''draco'', a reference to the related genus '' Artedidraco''. The specific name is a compound of ''longi'' which means "long" and ''dorsalis'' meaning "dorsal". Roule did not explain this but it may be a reference to this taxon's taller, but not longer, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notothenioidei
Notothenioidei is one of 19 suborders of the order Perciformes. The group is found mainly in Antarctic and Subantarctic waters, with some species ranging north to southern Australia and southern South America. Notothenioids constitute approximately 90% of the fish biomass in the continental shelf waters surrounding Antarctica. Evolution and geographic distribution The Southern Ocean has supported fish habitats for 400 million years; however, modern notothenioids likely appeared sometime after the Eocene epoch. This period marked the cooling of the Southern Ocean, resulting in the stable, frigid conditions that have persisted to the present day. Another key factor in the evolution of notothenioids is the preponderance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), a large, slow-moving current that extends to the seafloor and precludes most migration to and from the Antarctic region. The earliest known notothenioids are the fossils '' Proeleginops'' and '' Mesetaichthys'' from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perciformes
Perciformes (), also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. ''Perciformes'' means " perch-like". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters ( Percidae), and also sea basses and groupers (Serranidae). This order contains many familiar freshwater temperate and tropical marine fish groups, but also extremophiles that have successfully colonized both the North and South Poles, as well as the deepest depths of the ocean. Taxonomy Formerly, this group was thought to be even more diverse than it is thought to be now, containing about 41% of all bony fish (about 10,000 species) and about 160 families, which is the most of any order within the vertebrates. However, many of these other families have since been reclassified within their own orders within the clade Percomorpha, significantly reducing the size of the group. In contrast to this splitting, other groups formerly considered distinct, such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harpagiferidae
''Harpagifer'', the spiny plunderfishes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, belonging to the family Harpagiferidae, it is the only genus in this monotypic family. They are found in the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy The genus ''Harpagifer'' was described in 1844 by the Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer John Richardson, with ''Batrachus bispinis'', a species which had been described in 1801 by Johann Reinhold Forster, as its type species by monotypy. In 1961 the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill realised that these fishes were different enough from other Notothenioid fishes that they should be placed in their own family which called Harpagiferoidae, although this is now spelled Harpagiferidae. The name of the genus ''Harpagifer'' compounds ''harpagos'' which means "hook" and ''fero'' meaning "to bear", a reference to the spine on the operculum of ''H. bispinis''. Species There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus: * '' Harpagifer andri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trachinus
''Trachinus'' is a genus of weevers, order Perciformes that consists of seven extant species. Six of the genus representatives inhabit the waters of Eastern Atlantic Ocean, but only one, ''Trachinus cornutus'', inhabits the South-Eastern Pacific Ocean. Three of the Atlantic species occur near the coasts of Europe. An eighth extinct species, ''Trachinus minutus, T. minutus'', is known from Oligocene-aged strata from the Carpathian Mountains, while a ninth species, also extinct, ''Trachinus dracunculus, T. dracunculus'', is known from middle-Miocene-aged strata from Piemonte, Italy. The genus name, given by Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, is from ', the Medieval Latin name for the fish, which in turn is from the Ancient Greek wikt:τραχύς, τρᾱχύς ''trachýs'' ‘rough’.Entry ‘Trachinidae’. Webster’s ''Third Unabridged Dictionary'' Species *Spotted weever, ''Trachinus araneus'' Georges Cuvier, Cuvier, 1829. *Guinean weever, ''Trachinus armatus'' Pieter Bleeker, Bleeker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Draconetta
The common slope dragonet (''Draconetta xenica'') is a species of slope dragonet native to the Indo-Pacific region where it can be found from Africa to the Hawaiian Islands. It is a benthic fish, occurring on sandy bottoms at the edges of the continental shelves at depths of from . This species grows to a length of SL. This species is the only known member of its genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino .... References Draconettidae Fish described in 1903 Taxa named by David Starr Jordan {{Perciformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Roule
Louis Roule (; 20 December 1861 – 30 July 1942) was a French zoologist born in Marseille. In 1881 he obtained a degree in natural sciences at Marseille, followed by his doctorate of sciences (1884) at Paris with a thesis on ascidians of coastal Provence. From 1885 he worked as a lecturer at the faculty of sciences in Toulouse, where in 1892 he became a professor. During the previous year (1891), he earned a doctorate in medicine. In 1910 he succeeded Léon Vaillant (1834–1914) as chair of zoology (reptiles and fish) at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, a position he would hold until 1937. During this time period he was also an instructor at the Institut National Agronomique (from 1925), and director of the laboratory of ichthyology at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). Works Roule's early research dealt largely with invertebrates. Later his focus turned to ichthyology, of which he had the opportunity to take inventory of large collections of ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genera
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. '' Panthera leo'' (lion) and '' Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus '' Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. phylogenetic analysis should clearly demonstrate both monophyly and validity as a separate lineag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
