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Stromateoidei
Stromateoidei is a suborder of marine ray-finned fish within the order Scombriformes. It includes the medusafishes, squaretails and driftfishes which associate with jellyfish, the latter families preying on them while the medusafish use them for protection while scavenging food scraps. It also contains the true butterfish, a common food fish. Taxonomy In earlier classifications, it has sometimes been treated as its own order, Stromateiformes, and some studies still treat it as such. However, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes considers it one of two major suborders of Scombriformes. The following classification is used by Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (2025): * Suborder Stromateoidei ** Family Amarsipidae Haedrich, 1969 (bagless glassfishes or amarsipas) ** Family Centrolophidae Bonaparte, 1846 (medusafishes) ** Family Nomeidae Günther, 1860 (driftfishes) ** Family Tetragonuridae Risso, 1827 (squaretails) ** Family Ariommatidae Haedrich, 1967 (ariommas or ariommatids) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scombroidei
Scombroidei or Scombrales is a suborder or infraorder of the order Scombriformes or suborder Scombroidei. The suborder or infraorder includes the tunas, mackerel and snake-mackerels. Regular scombrids are observed to have large heads, eyes, and mouths. In most cases, the second dorsal fin will develop before the development of the first. The earliest known member is the scombrid '' Landanichthys'' from the Selandian of Angola, although potential fossil teeth of '' Eutrichiurides'' are slightly older. Taxonomy Originally, both Scombroidei and Stromateoidei were placed under the order Perciformes, but both taxa are now lumped together into the order Scombriformes or alternatively ranked as infraorders (Stromateales and Scombrales) under the suborder Scombroidei within the order Syngnathiformes. Most modern taxonomic authorities use the former treatment. The following taxonomic classification is used by Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: * Suborder Scombroidei ** Family Pomatom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariommatidae
Ariommatidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes which are classified within the suborder Stromateoidei of the order Scombriformes. Genera Ariommatidae contains one extant genus and one known extinct genus: The extinct genus '' Cubariomma'' from the early Oligocene of the North Caucasus The North Caucasus, or Ciscaucasia, is a subregion in Eastern Europe governed by Russia. It constitutes the northern part of the wider Caucasus region, which separates Europe and Asia. The North Caucasus is bordered by the Sea of Azov and the B ... may be either an ariommatid or a nomeid. References Percomorpha families {{Scombroidei-stub Extant Rupelian first appearances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medusafish
Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of scombriform ray-finned fishes. The family includes about 31 species. They are found in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world. Young '' Icichthys lockingtoni'' specimens are abundant in the coastal waters of the north Pacific, where they are often found in association with jellyfish, which provide them with protection from predators and opportunities to scavenge the remains of the jellyfishes' meals. The oldest known fossil member of the group known from articulated remains is '' Butyrumichthys'' from the earliest Ypresian of the Fur Formation in Denmark. Slightly older fossil otoliths of the species ''"Mupus" sinuosus'' are also known from the Selandian of Denmark. Genera The following genera are classified within the family Centrolophidae: * '' Centrolophus'' Lacépède, 1802 * '' Hyperoglyphe'' Günther, 1859 * '' Icichthys'' Jordan & Gilbert, 1880 * '' Psenopsis'' Gill, 1862 * '' Schedophilus'' Cocco, 1839 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scombriformes
Scombriformes, also known as Pelagia and Pelagiaria, is an order of ray-finned fish within the clade Percomorpha. It contains 287 extant species in 16 families, most of which were previously classified under the suborders Scombroidei and Stromateoidei of the order Perciformes. The earliest known scombriform is the scombrid '' Landanichthys'' from the Middle Paleocene of Angola. Taxonomy Scombriformes includes the following families: * Suborder Stromateoidei ** Family Amarsipidae (amarsipa) ** Family Centrolophidae (medusafishes) ** Family Nomeidae (driftfishes) ** Family Tetragonuridae (squaretails) ** Family Ariommatidae (ariommas) ** Family Stromateidae (butterfishes) * Suborder Scombroidei ** Family Pomatomidae (bluefishes) ** Family Icosteidae (ragfish) ** Family Arripidae (Australasian salmon (kahawai)) ** Family Chiasmodontidae (swallowers) ** Family Scombridae *** Subfamily Gasterochismatinae (butterfly kingfish) *** Subfamily Scombrinae (mackerels, bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stromateidae
The family Stromateidae or butterfish contains 15 species of ray-finned fish in three genera. Butterfishes live in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific. The endemic New Zealand species '' Odax pullus'' is commonly called butterfish, but is from a separate family Odacidae. The Japanese butterfish ''Psenopsis anomala'' is from the separate family Centrolophidae. The African butter catfish is also known as the butter fish. In South Australia, the ''Argyrosomus japonicus'' is commonly called butterfish as well. Species * Genus '' Pampus'' ** Silver or white pomfret, '' Pampus argenteus'' (Euphrasen, 1788); Synonym: ''P. cinereus'' (Bloch, 1795). ** Chinese silver pomfret, '' Pampus chinensis'' (Euphrasen, 1788): ** '' Pampus echinogaster'' (Basilewsky, 1855). ** Southern lesser pomfret, '' Pampus minor'' Liu & Li, 1998. ** '' Pampus punctatissimus'' ( Temminck & Schlegel, 1845). * Genus '' Peprilus'' ** Gulf butterfish, '' Peprilus burti' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percomorpha
Percomorpha () is an extremely large and diverse clade of ray-finned fish. With more than 17,000 known species (including Scombroidei, tuna, Syngnathiformes, seahorses, gobies, Cichlidae, cichlids, flatfish, Labridae, wrasse, Perciformes, perches, Lophiiformes, anglerfish, and Tetraodontiformes, pufferfish) known from both marine and freshwater ecosystems, it is the most speciose clade of extant Vertebrate, vertebrates. Evolution Percomorpha are the most biodiversity, diverse group of teleost fish today. Teleosts, and percomorphs in particular, thrived during the Cenozoic Era (geology), era. Fossil evidence shows that there was a major increase in size and abundance of teleosts immediately after the mass extinction event at the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary ago. The oldest known percomorph fossils are of the early Tetraodontiformes, tetraodontiforms ''Protriacanthus'' and Cretatriacanthidae from the Santonian to Campanian of Italy and Slov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driftfish
Nomeidae, the driftfishes, are a family of scombriform ray-finned fishes found in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world. The family includes about 16 species. The largest species, such as the Cape fathead, ''Cubiceps capensis'', reach 1 m in length. Several species are found in association with siphonophores (which are colonies of tiny individual animals that have specialised functions which resemble jellyfish) such as the Portuguese man o' war; the man-of-war fish, ''Nomeus gronovii'', is known to eat its tentacles and gonads, as well as feeding on other jellyfishes. Other species of driftfishes are associated with the floating seaweed ''Sargassum''. The Cape fathead feeds mainly on salps. Some species of '' Cubiceps'' are occasionally caught on pelagic longlines set for swordfish. Fossil genera include '' Psenicubiceps'' Daniltshenko, 1980, ''?Psenes macrolepis'' Arambourg, 1967, and '' Rybapina'' Bannikov, 1993 from the Early Oligocene of the North Caucasus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Risso
Giuseppe Antonio Risso (8 April 1777 – 25 August 1845), called Antoine Risso, was a naturalist from Nice. Risso was born in the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published ' (1810), ' (1826) and ' (1818–1822). Risso's dolphin was named after him. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Risso when citing a botanical name; the same abbreviation is used for zoological names. Genera and species named after him * '' Rissoa'' : a genus of gastropods * '' Rissoella'' : a genus of gastropod * '' Rissoella'' : a genus of red algae * '' Electrona risso'' : a lanternfish *'' Polyacanthonotus rissoanus'' : smallmouth spiny eel Genera and species named by him He named 549 marine genera and species. IPNI The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (; 22 October 178318 September 1840) was a French early 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France. He traveled as a young man in the United States, ultimately settling in Ohio in 1815, where he made notable contributions to botany, zoology, and the study of Mound Builders, prehistoric earthworks in North America. He also contributed to the study of ancient Mesoamerican languages, Mesoamerican linguistics, in addition to work he had already completed in Europe. Rafinesque was an eccentric and erratic genius. He was an autodidact, who excelled in various fields of knowledge, as a zoologist, botanist, writer and Polyglot (person), polyglot. He wrote prolifically on such diverse topics as anthropology, biology, geology, and linguistics, but was honored in none of these fields during his lifetime. Indeed, he was an outcast in the American scientific community and his submissions were automati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraphyly
Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages. The grouping is said to be paraphyletic ''with respect to'' the excluded subgroups. In contrast, a monophyletic grouping (a clade) includes a common ancestor and ''all'' of its descendants. The terms are commonly used in phylogenetics (a subfield of biology) and in the tree model of historical linguistics. Paraphyletic groups are identified by a combination of synapomorphies and symplesiomorphies. If many subgroups are missing from the named group, it is said to be polyparaphyletic. The term received currency during the debates of the 1960s and 1970s accompanying the rise of cladistics, having been coined by zoologist Willi Hennig to apply to well-known taxa like Reptilia (reptiles), which is paraphyletic with respect to birds. Reptilia contains the last common ancestor of reptiles and all descendants of that ancest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
