''Epigonus'' is a

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ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

in the

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Epigonidae Epigonidae, the deepwater cardinalfishes, are a family of acropomatiform ray-finned fishes. The family includes about 43 species. They are small fishes: the largest, ''Epigonus telescopus'', reaches in length, and most grow to no more than or ...

found in the

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, Indian and

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. The genus was erected by

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, ult ...

in 1810.

Species

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, Zajonz & Khalaf, 2009 (Red Sea deep-water cardinalfish) * '' Epigonus mayeri'' Okamoto, 2011 (Angolan deep-water cardinalfish) Okamoto, M. (2011)
A new species of deepwater cardinalfish, ''Epigonus mayeri'', from the eastern Central Atlantic, and redescription of ''Epigonus heracleus'' Parin and Abramov 1986 (Perciformes: Epigonidae).
''Ichthyological Research'', 58 (2): 101–108. * '' Epigonus megalops'' ( H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) Okamoto, M. (2016): Validity of ''Epigonus megalops'' (Perciformes: Epigonidae), Redescription of ''E. atherinoides'', and First Record of ''E. draco'' from the Central South Pacific. ''Species Diversity'', 21 (2): 177-186. * '' Epigonus notacanthus'' Parin & Abramov, 1986 * '' Epigonus occidentalis'' Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 (western deep-water cardinalfish) * '' Epigonus oligolepis'' G. F. Mayer, 1974 * ''

Epigonus pandionis ''Epigonus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family (biology), family Epigonidae found in the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean. The genus was erected by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1810. Species There ar ...

'' ( Goode & T. H. Bean, 1881) * '' Epigonus parini'' Abramov, 1987 * '' Epigonus pectinifer'' G. F. Mayer, 1974 * '' Epigonus robustus'' (

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, 1927) (robust deep-water cardinalfish) * '' Epigonus telescopus'' ( A. Risso, 1810) (black deep-water cardinalfish) * '' Epigonus thai''

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& Bussarawit, 2012 Parin, N.V., Prokofiev, A.M. & Bussarawit, S. (2012)
Two new species of the genus ''Epigonus'' (Perciformes: Epigonidae) from the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
''Journal of Ichthyology'', 52 (3): 239–243. * '' Epigonus tuberculatus'' Okamoto & Motomura, 2013 (Keeling deep-water cardinalfish) * '' Epigonus waltersensis'' Parin & Abramov, 1986

References

Epigonidae Ray-finned fish genera Marine fish genera Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque {{Acropomatiformes-stub