Fundulidae

Fundulidae
Fundulus sciadicus
Systematics
Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae) Ovalentaria Superordinate : Earfish relatives (Atherinomorphae) Order : Toothpies (Cyprinodontiformes) Subordination : Cyprinodontoidei Family : Fundulidae
Scientific name
Fundulidae
Jordan & Gilbert , 1882

The Fundulidae ( Latin : "Fundus" = soil) are a family of North and Central American toothfish (Cyprinodontiformes).

features

The fish are 3 to 12.5 inches long. The dorsal fin, supported by 7 to 16 fin rays, lies above the middle of the body, the beginning of its base in front of or near the anal fin. The anal fin has 9 to 15 soft rays. The maxillary is not straight but twisted. Its inner part, lying on the abdomen, points forward and is often covered with clear bumps.

distribution

They live in the waters of the North and Central American plains, north to southeast Canada , in Mexico (up to the Yucatan ), on Cuba and Bermuda . They prefer to stay in heavily overgrown waters. Some species of the genus Fundulus also go into brackish water or the coastal sea water.

Genera and species

Internal systematics of the Fundulidae according to Ghedotti & Davis and Rodgers and colleagues:

• Genus Wileyichthys (the former Fundulus species of the Pacific coast)
  • † Wileyichthys eulepis Miller , 1945 - Pliocene to Pleistocene , Death Valley
  • Wileyichthys parvipinnis ( Girard , 1856)
  • Wileyichthys lima ( Vaillant , 1894)
• Genus Leptolucania Myers , 1924
  • Leptolucania ommata ( Jordan , 1884)
• Genus Lucania Girard , 1860
  

  Lucania parva
  • Lucania goodei Jordan , 1880
  • Lucania parva ( Baird & Girard in Baird , 1855)
  • Lucania interioris Hubbs & Miller , 1965
• Genus Fundulus Lacépéde , 1803
  • Subgenus Plancterus Garman , 1895
    • † Fundulus detillae Hibbard & Dunkle , 1942 - Pliocene, western Kansas
    • Fundulus kansae Girard , 1859
    • Fundulus zebrinus Jordan & Gilbert , 1883
  • Subgenus Zygonectes Agassiz , 1854
    

    Fundulus chrysotus
    

    Fundulus cingulatus
    • Fundulus chrysotus ( Günther , 1866)
    • Fundulus luciae Baird , 1855
    • Fundulus xenicus Jordan & Gilbert , 1882
    • Fundulus cingulatus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes , 1846
    • Fundulus rubrifrons ( Jordan , 1880)
    • Fundulus sciadicus Cope , 1865
    • Fundulus notatus species group:
      • Fundulus notatus ( Rafinesque , 1820)
      • Fundulus olivaceus ( Storer , 1846)
      • Fundulus euryzonus Suttkus & Cashner , 1981
    • Fundulus nottii species group:
      

      Fundulus escambiae
      

      Fundulus lineolatus
      • Fundulus dispar ( Agassiz , 1854)
      • Fundulus blairae Wiley & Hall , 1975
      • Fundulus lineolatus ( Agassiz , 1854)
      • Fundulus escambiae ( Bollman , 1887)
      • Fundulus nottii ( Agassiz , 1854)
  • Subgenus Fundulus Lacépéde , 1803
    • Fundulus majalis species group:
      • Fundulus majalis ( Walbaum , 1792)
      • Fundulus persimilis Miller , 1955
      • Fundulus similis ( Baird & Girard , 1853)
    • Fundulus seminolis Girard , 1859
    • Fundulus rathbuni Jordan & Meek in Jordan , 1896
    • Fundulus diaphanus ( Lesueur , 1817)
    • Fundulus waccamensis Hubbs & Raney , 1946
    • † Fundulus albolineatus Gilbert , 1891
    • Fundulus julisia Williams & Etnier , 1982
    • Fundulus catenatus species group:
      • Fundulus stellifer ( Jordan , 1877)
      • Fundulus catenatus ( Storer , 1846)
      • Fundulus bifax Cashner, Rogers & Grady , 1988
    • Fundulus jenkinsi ( Evermann , 1892)
    • Fundulus confluentus Goode & Bean in Goode , 1879
    • Fundulus pulvereus ( Evermann , 1892)
    • Fundulus heteroclitus species group:
      

      Fundulus grandis
      

      Fundulus heteroclitus
      • Fundulus heteroclitus Linnaeus , 1766
      • Fundulus bermudae Günther , 1874
      • Fundulus relictus Able & Felley , 1988
      • Fundulus philpisteri Garcia-Ramirez, Contreras-Balderas & Lozano-Vilano , 2007
      • Fundulus grandis Baird & Girard , 1853
      • Fundulus grandissimus Hubbs , 1936
  • Fundulus incertae sedis , not assigned to any subgenus
    • † Fundulus curryi Miller , 1945 - Pliocene to Pleistocene, Death Valley
    • † Fundulus davidae Miller , 1945 - Pliocene to Pleistocene, Death Valley
    • † Fundulus lariversi Lugaski , 1977 - Miocene, central Nevada
    • † Fundulus nevadensis ( Eastman , 1917) - Pliocene, northwestern Nevada
    • Fundulus xenica Jordan & Gilbert , 1882

literature

• Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World: John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 :

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael J. Ghedotti & Matthew P. Davis: Phylogeny, Classification, and Evolution of Salinity Tolerance of the North American Topminnows and Killifishes, Family Fundulidae (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). In: Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences. No. 7, 2013, pp. 1–65, doi: 10.3158 / 2158-5520-12.7.1 .
2. ↑ Rachel Rodgers, Jennifer L. Roach, Noah M. Reid, Andrew Whitehead, David D. Duvernell: Phylogenomic analysis of Fundulidae (Teleostei: Cyprinodotiformes) using RNA-sequencing data. In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Volume 121, April 2018, pp. 150–157, doi: 10.1016 / j.ympev.2017.12.030 .

Web links

Commons : Fundulidae  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fundulidae on Fishbase.org (English)