Deep sea cardinalfish

Deep sea cardinalfish
Epigonus denticulatus
Systematics
Sub-cohort : Neoteleostei Acanthomorphata Spinefish (Acanthopterygii) Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae) Order : Pempheriformes Family : Deep sea cardinalfish
Scientific name
Epigonidae
Fraser , 1972

The deep-sea cardinalfish (Epigonidae) belong to the perch relatives (Percomorphaceae). They live in the Mediterranean , Atlantic , Pacific and Indian Oceans .

features

Depending on the species, the fish are 3 to 75 centimeters long. Deep-sea cardinalfish differ from the (not closely related) cardinalfish (Apogonidae) by the number of vertebrae and other features in their bone structure. They usually have 25 vertebrae. Their dorsal and anal fins are covered with scales.

Systematics

There are about 45 species , of which over 35 belong to the genus Epigonus . The remaining 6 genera contain only one or two species each.

Epigonus atherinoides

Epigonus lenimen

Epigonus occidentalis

Epigonus robustus

Epigonus telescopus

• Brephostoma
  • Brephostoma carpenteri Alcock , 1889 .
• Brinkmannella
  • Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933 .
• Epigonus The genus Epigonus is probably not monophyletic.
  • Epigonus affinis Parin & Abramov, 1986 .
  • Epigonus angustifrons Abramov & Manilo, 1987 .
  • Epigonus atherinoides (Gilbert, 1905) .
  • Epigonus bispinosus Okamoto & Gon, 2018 .
  • Epigonus chilensis Okamoto, 2012 .
  • Epigonus constanciae ( Giglioli , 1880) .
  • Epigonus crassicaudus de Buen, 1959 .
  • Epigonus ctenolepis Mochizuki & Shirakihara, 1983 .
  • Epigonus devaneyi Gon, 1985 .
  • Epigonus draco Okamoto, 2015 .
  • Epigonus elegans Parin & Abramov, 1986 .
  • Epigonus exodon Okamoto & Motomura, 2012 .
  • Epigonus glossodontus Gon, 1985 .
  • Epigonus heracleus Parin & Abramov, 1986 .
  • Epigonus idai Okamoto & Gon, 2018 .
  • Epigonus lenimen (Whitley, 1935) .
  • Epigonus machaera Okamoto, 2012 .
  • Epigonus macrops ( Brewer , 1906) .
  • Epigonus marimonticolus Parin & Abramov, 1986 .
  • Epigonus merleni McCosker & Long, 1997 .
  • Epigonus notacanthus Parin & Abramov, 1986 .
  • Epigonus occidentalis Goode & Bean , 1896 .
  • Epigonus oligolepis Mayer, 1974 .
  • Epigonus pectinifer Mayer, 1974 .
  • Epigonus robustus (Mead & De Falla, 1965) .
  • Epigonus telescopus ( Risso , 1810) .
  • Epigonus waltersensis Parin & Abramov, 1986 .
• Epigonus pandionis group, probably the sister group of Rosenblattia .
  

  Epigonus pandionis
  • Epigonus cavaticus Ida, Okamoto & Sakaue, 2007 .
  • Epigonus denticulatus Dieuzeide, 1950 .
  • Epigonus elongatus (Parr, 1933) .
  • Epigonus fragilis ( Jordan & Jordan , 1922) .
  • Epigonus lifouensis Okamoto & Motomura, 2013 .
  • Epigonus marisrubri Krupp, Zajonz & Khalaf, 2009 .
  • Epigonus pandionis ( Goode & Bean , 1881) .
  • Epigonus parini Abramov, 1987 .
  • Epigonus tuberculatus Okamoto & Motomura, 2013 .
• Florenciella
  • Florenciella lugubris Mead & De Falla, 1965 .
• Microichthys
  • Microichthys atlanticus Fricke et al., 2020 .
  • Microichthys coccoi Rüppell , 1852 .
  • Microichthys sanzoi Sparta, 1950 .
• Rosenblattia
  • Rosenblattia robusta Mead & De Falla, 1965 .
• Sphyraenops
  • Sphyraenops bairdianus Poey , 1861 .

literature

• Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ et al. 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ghedotti, MJ, Gruber, JN, Barton, RW, Davis, MP & Smith, WL (2018): Morphology and evolution of bioluminescent organs in the glowbellies (Percomorpha: Acropomatidae) with comments on the taxonomy and phylogeny of Acropomatiformes. Journal of Morphology, October 2018, doi: 10.1002 / jmor.20894
2. ↑ Okamoto, M. & Motomura, H .; 2013: Two new species of deepwater cardinalfish from the Indo-Pacific, with a definition of the Epigonus pandionis group (Perciformes: Epigonidae). Ichthyological Research, doi: 10.1007 / s10228-013-0352-0

Web links

Commons : Deep Sea Cardinalfish  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Epigonidae on Fishbase.org (English)