Hatchet pegs
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Pellona castelnaeana |
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| Jordan & Evermann , 1896 |
The pristigasteridae (Pristigasteridae) living in tropical coastal regions of the Atlantic , the Pacific and the Indian Ocean , four species in fresh waters of South America and Southeast Asia . They are schooling fish .
features
The fish are 3.6 to 80 centimeters long, most species stay under 25 centimeters. Their most striking difference to other herring species is their long anal fin , which is supported by 30 to 92 fin rays. Some genera lack the pelvic fins. The mouth is mostly above, otherwise terminal.
Systematics
Subfamily Pelloninae
A common feature of the Pelloninae subfamily is a bone-covered gap between the premaxillary and maxillary .
- Genus Chirocentrodon Günther, 1868
- Chirocentrodon bleekerianus (Poey, 1867)
- Genus Ilisha Richardson, 1846
Ilisha elongata on sale at a supermarket in Yuhuan- Ilisha amazonica (Miranda Ribeiro, 1920)
- Ilisha compressa Randall, 1994
- Ilisha elongata (Anoniem / Bennett, 1830)
- Ilisha filigera (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1847)
- Ilisha fuerthii (Steindachner, 1875)
- Ilisha kampeni (Weber and de Beaufort, 1913)
- Ilisha lunula Kailola, 1986
- Ilisha macrogaster Bleeker , 1866
- Ilisha megaloptera (Swainson, 1839)
- Ilisha melastoma (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
- Ilisha novacula (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1847)
- Ilisha obfuscata Wongratana, 1983
- Ilisha pristigastroides (Bleeker, 1852)
- Ilisha sirishai Seshagiri Rao, 1975
- Ilisha striatula Wongratana, 1983
- Genus Neoopisthopterus Hildebrand, 1948
- Neoopisthopterus cubanus Hildebrand, 1948
- Neoopisthopterus tropicus (Hildebrand, 1946)
- Genus Pellona Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1847
- Pellona altamazonica Cope, 1872
- Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1847
- Pellona dayi Wongratana, 1983
- Pellona ditchela Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1847
- Pellona flavipinnis (Valenciennes, 1836)
- Pellona harroweri (Fowler, 1917)
- Genus Pliosteostoma Norman, 1923
- Pliosteostoma lutipinnis (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)
Subfamily Pristigasterinae
A common feature of the subfamily Pristigasterinae is a bony outgrowth of the first abdominal rib that articulates with the shoulder girdle.
- Genus Odontognathus Lacepède, 1800
- Odontognathus compressus Meek & Hildebrand, 1923
- Odontognathus mucronatus Lacepède, 1800
- Odontognathus panamensis (Steindachner, 1876)
- Genus Opisthopterus Gill, 1861
- Opisthopterus dovii (Günther, 1868)
- Opisthopterus effulgens (Regan, 1903)
- Opisthopterus equatorialis Hildebrand, 1946
- Opisthopterus macrops (Günther, 1867)
- Opisthopterus tardoore (Cuvier, 1829)
- Opisthopterus valenciennesi Bleeker, 1872
- Genus Pristigaster Cuvier, 1816
- Amazonian hatchet herring ( Pristigaster cayana ) Cuvier, 1829
- Pristigaster whiteheadi Menezes & de Pinna, 2000
- Genus Raconda Gray, 1831
- Raconda russeliana Gray, 1831
- Genus not yet determined
- "Ilisha" africana (Bloch, 1795)
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World . John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Sébastien Lavoué, Peter Konstantinidis & Wei-Jen Chen: Progress in Clupeiform Systematics. in Konstantinos Ganias (Ed.): Biology and Ecology of Sardines and Anchovies. CRC Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4822-2854-0
Web links
- Hatchet herring on Fishbase.org (English)