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Notopterus Synurus
''Notopterus'' is a genus of fishes in family Notopteridae found in South Asia:Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh (''N. synurus'') and Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam (''N. notopterus''). The genus was formerly monotypic, featuring only the tautonymous type species. However, genetic evidence recommended that the genus be split in 2020. References Notopteridae Fauna of Southeast Asia Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède Taxa described in 1800 {{Osteoglossiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notopterus Notopterus
The bronze featherback (''Notopterus notopterus'') is a ray-finned fish in the family Notopteridae found in South Asia, South and Southeast Asia. Although primarily found in fresh water, it has been known to enter brackish water. At present, it is the only member of the genus ''Notopterus'', but as currently defined, it is likely a species complex. Description Young specimens are a dark bronze-like color that becomes lighter with age. The species reaches a length up to . The bronze featherback can easily be kept in an aquarium. Popular as food, this fish also appears in a stamp of the Kingdom of Laos. As food This fish has been used as food in Southeast Asia since ancient times, and remains an important food item in countries such as Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), and Thailand. It is preserved and prepared in different ways. In Burmese cuisine, the flesh of the bronze featherback, locally known as ''ngaphe'', is used in ngachin, a pressed fish pickle, and is used to make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notopterus Synurus
''Notopterus'' is a genus of fishes in family Notopteridae found in South Asia:Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh (''N. synurus'') and Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam (''N. notopterus''). The genus was formerly monotypic, featuring only the tautonymous type species. However, genetic evidence recommended that the genus be split in 2020. References Notopteridae Fauna of Southeast Asia Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède Taxa described in 1800 {{Osteoglossiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notopteridae
The family Notopteridae contains 11 species of osteoglossiform (bony-tongued) fishes, commonly known as featherbacks and knifefishes. These fishes live in freshwater or brackish environments in Africa and West, South, East and Southeast Asia. With the denotation of "knifefish", the notopterids should not be confused with Gymnotiformes, the electric knifefishes from South and Central America. Although their manner of swimming is similar and they are superficially similar in appearance, the two groups are not closely related. A few of the larger species, especially ''Chitala ornata'', are food fish and occasionally aquarium pets. The name is from Greek ''noton'' meaning "back" and ''pteron'' meaning "fin". Fossils The earliest fossil of this family is otolith of '' Notopteridarum'' from the Late Cretaceous of India, about 70.6 to 66 million years ago. Description Featherbacks have slender, elongated, bodies, giving them a knife-like appearance. The caudal fin is small and fus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fauna Of Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the Bay of Bengal, to the east by Oceania and the Pacific Ocean, and to the south by Australia (continent), Australia and the Indian Ocean. Apart from the British Indian Ocean Territory and two out of Atolls of the Maldives, 26 atolls of the Maldives in South Asia, Maritime Southeast Asia is the only other subregion of Asia that lies partly within the Southern Hemisphere. Mainland Southeast Asia is entirely in the Northern Hemisphere. Timor-Leste and the southern portion of Indonesia are the parts of Southeast Asia that lie south of the equator. The region lies near the intersection of Plate tectonics, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taxa Named By Bernard Germain De Lacépède
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; : taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking, especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established. It is very common, however, for taxonomists to remain at odds over what belongs to a taxon and the criteria used for inclusion, especially in the context of rank-based (" Linnaean") nomenclature (much less so under phylogenetic nomenclature). If a taxon is given a formal scientific name, its use is then governed by one of the nomenclature codes specifying which scientific name is correct for a particular grouping. Initial attempts at classifying and ordering organisms (plants and animals) were presumably set forth in prehistoric times by hunter-gatherers, as suggested by the fairly sophisticated folk taxonomies. Much later, Aristotle, and later still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
