Whitefish

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Whitefish
Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)

Rudd ( Scardinius erythrophthalmus )

Systematics
Cohort : Otomorpha
Sub-cohort : Ostariophysi
without rank: Otophysa
Order : Carp-like (Cypriniformes)
Subordination : Carp fish-like (Cyprinoidei)
Family : Whitefish
Scientific name
Leuciscidae
Bonaparte , 1838

The white fish (Leuciscidae) are a family from the order of the carp-like (Cypriniformes). The freshwater fish live in North America , Europe and Asia with the exception of the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia .

Native species are Aland , bream , roach , bream , hazel , nose , rutilus meidingerii , roach , rudd , Schneider , bleak , Pickerel and Zope and chub and asp , the only predatory species.

features

Most whitefish have an elongated or high-backed body shape. The dorsal fin is short and the first ray is often not ossified. The anal fin always begins behind the dorsal fin. Most species do not have barbels . The sideline can be complete or reduced, a complete line always runs along the center of the caudal stalk . Some genera have a sharp abdominal keel formed from protruding scales. White fish have one to three rows of fangs .

Systematics

The whitefish were introduced as a taxon in 1838 by the Italian zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte . For a long time they were considered a subfamily of the carp fish (Cyprinidae). Stout and colleagues raised all subfamilies of the Cyprinidae to family status in 2016. Susana Schönhuth and colleagues took on this in their comprehensive revision of the whitefish published in June 2018, and the scientific fish database Catalog of Fishes now lists the whitefish and the other former subfamilies of the Cyprinidae as independent families.

Six different monophyletic subfamilies can be distinguished within the whitefish :

literature

supporting documents

  1. Richard van der Laan, William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke: Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 001-230 doi: 10.11646 / zootaxa.3882.1.1
  2. Stout, CC, Tan, M., Lemmon, AR, Moriarty Lemmon, E. & Armbruster, JW (2016): Resolving Cypriniformes relationships using an anchored enrichment approach. BMC Evolutionary Biology, November 2016. DOI: 10.1186 / s12862-016-0819-5
  3. ^ A b Susana Schönhuth, Jasna Vukic, Radek Sanda, Lei Yang, Richard L. Mayden: Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Holarctic family Leuciscidae (Cypriniformes: Cyprinoidei). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, June 2018, doi: 10.1016 / j.ympev.2018.06.026
  4. Eschmeyer, WN & Fong, JD: Catalog of Fishes Species by Family / Subfamily, accessed on July 13, 2018

Web links

Commons : Leuciscinae  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Whitefish  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations