Pigfish (other)
Pigfish may refer to: * Fishes in the family Congiopodidae * Redmouth grunt, ''Orthopristis chrysoptera (Linnaeus)'' * Golden-spot hogfish, ''Bodianus perditio'' * Red pigfish, ''Bodianus unimaculatus'' {{disambiguation, fish ...
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Congiopodidae
Congiopodidae, commonly known as pigfishes, horsefishes and racehorses, is a family of ray-finned fish classified with in the order Scorpaeniformes. These fishes are native to the Southern Hemisphere. Taxonomy Congiopodidae was first formally recognised as a family by the American biologist Theodore Gill in 1889. The 5th edition of '' Fishes of the World'' classifies the family within the suborder Scorpaenoidei which in turn is classified within the order Scorpaeniformes. Other authorities place the Scorpaenoidei within the Perciformes. The monophyly of the Congiopodidae as set out in ''Fishes of the World'' is not universally agreed upon. Some authorities classify the genus ''Perryena'' in its own subfamily, Perryeninae, in the stonefish family Synanceiidae. The genera ''Alertichthys'' and ''Zanclorhynchus'' are classified within the family Zanclorhynchidae leaving ''Congiopodus'' as the only genus in the monotypic Congiopodidae. The name of the family is based on that of th ...
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