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Triglidae
''Triglidae'', commonly known as gurnards or sea robins, are a Family (biology), family of bottom-feeding scorpaeniform ray-finned fish. The gurnards are distributed in temperate and tropical seas worldwide. Taxonomy ''Triglidae'' was first described as a Family (biology), family in 1815 by the French polymath and naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. In 1883 David Starr Jordan, Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert, Gilbert formally designated ''Trigla lyra'', which had been Species description, described by Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus in 1758, as the type species of the genus ''Trigla'' and so of the family Triglidae. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies this family within the suborder Platycephaloidei in the Order (biology), order Scorpaeniformes. Other authorities differ and do not consider the Scorpaeniformes to be a valid order because the Perciformes order is not monophyletic without the Taxon, taxa within the Scorpaeniformes being included. These authorities c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prionotus
''Prionotus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Triglidae, one of two genera belonging to the subfamily Prionotinae, the searobins. These fishes are found in the Western Atlantic Ocean and eastern Pacific Ocean, in the waters off the Americas. Taxonomy ''Prionotus'' was first described as a genus in 1801 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède, who described it as a monotypic genus with its type species being ''Prionotus evolans, Trigla evolans'', Species description, described by Linnaeus in 1766. The genus is one of 2 genera classified within the subfamily Prionotinae, the searobins, in the gurnard family Triglidae. Etymology The genus name is a compound of ''wikt:πρίων, prion''; "saw", and ''notus''; "back", as Lacépède saw three free dorsal fin, dorsal spines (not encased in the fin's Biological membrane, membrane) when he was describing the type species ''Prionotus evolans, P. evolans'' but these were p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
