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Halaphritis
The flathead congoli (''Halaphritis platcephala'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the family Bovichtidae, the thornfishes or temperate icefishes. It is native to the seas off southeastern Australia. This species is the only known member of its genus. Taxonomy The flathead congoli was first formally described in 2002 by Peter R. Last, Arkady Vladimirovich Balushkin and J. Barry Hutchins with the type locality given as Port Davey, Tasmania. It is the only species in the monotypic genus ''Halaphritis''. The name of the genus ''Halaphritis'' is a compound of ''halos'' meaning "sea" and ''aphritis'' which is a name which dates back to Aristotle, who used it for a type of anchovy or whitebait, but the authors used as an allusion to ''Pseudaphritis'', emphasising this species marine habitat compared to the superficially similar congoli (''Pseudaphritis urvillii''), a predominantly fresh and brackish water species. The specific name ''platycephala'' means "flat h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudaphritis
The congoli (''Pseudaphritis urvillii''), also known as the freshwater flathead, marble fish, marbled flathead, sand trout, sanding, sandy, sandy whiting or tupong. is a species of marine ray-finned fish and it is the only species of fish in the monotypic family Pseudaphritidae and the genus ''Pseudaphritis''. It was initially classified as a member of the family Bovichtidae. Taxonomy The congoli was first formally described as ''Aphritis urvillii'' in 1832 by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes but the name ''Aphritis'' was a junior synonym of the Diptera genus '' Aphritis'' named by Pierre André Latreille in 1805. The genus ''Pseudaphritis'' was described by the French zoologist Francis de La Porte Castelnau in 1872. The family Pseudaphritidae was first named by the Australian ichthyologist Allan Riverstone McCulloch in 1929. The Pseudaphritidae are the sister family of the Bovichtidae and Eleginopidae and these are all sister to the rest of the families in the No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bovichtidae
Bovichtidae, the temperate icefishes or thornfishes, is a Family (biology), family of marine ray-finned fishes, classified in the suborder Notothenioidei of the Order (biology), order Perciformes. They are native to coastal waters off Australia, New Zealand, and South America. Systematics Bovichtidae was first formally described as a family in 1861 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill. The family name was spelled Bovichthyidae in the 4th edition of J. S. Nelson's ''Fishes of the World'' but has been reverted to Bovichtidae in the 5th edition. Phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters has revealed that the family Bovichtidae may not be a monophyletic group. Bovichtidae is one of two families of the suborder Notothenioidei with a primarily non-Antarctic distribution, the other being Pseudaphritis urvillii, Pseudaphritidae. The name of the family is taken from its type genus, ''Bovichtus'' which is derived from bovus meaning “bull” and ''ichthys'' which m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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