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Bovichtidae
Bovichtidae, the temperate icefishes or thornfishes, is a family of marine ray-finned fishes, classified in the suborder Notothenioidei of the order Perciformes. They are native to coastal waters off Australia, New Zealand, and South America. Systematics Bovichtidae was first formally described as a family in 1861 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill. The family name was spelled Bovichthyidae in the 4th edition of J. S. Nelson's '' Fishes of the World'' but has been reverted to Bovichtidae in the 5th edition. Phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters has revealed that the family Bovichtidae may not be a monophyletic group. Bovichtidae is one of two families of the suborder Notothenioidei with a primarily non-Antarctic distribution, the other being Pseudaphritidae. The name of the family is taken from its type genus, ''Bovichtus'' which is derived from bovus meaning “bull” and ''ichthys'' which means fish, based on the local name for ''Bovichtus'' sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bovichtus
''Bovichtus'' is a genus of fish in the family Bovichtidae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy ''Bovichtus'' was formally described as a genus in 1832 by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes with ''Callionymus diacanthus'', which had been described by the Scottish botanist and officer in the British Army Dugald Carmichael in 1819 with the type locality given as Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, as the type species. The name of the genus, ''Bovichtus'', is derived from bovus meaning "bull" and ''ichthys'' which means fish, based on the local name for ''Bovichtus'' species in Valparaiso, Chile, ''torrito'', meaning "little bull". Species There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus: * '' Bovichtus angustifrons'' Regan, 1913 * '' Bovichtus argentinus'' MacDonagh, 1931 * '' Bovichtus chilensis'' Regan, 1913 * '' Bovichtus diacanthus'' ( Carmichael, 1819) * '' Bovichtus oculus'' Hardy, 1989 * '' Bovichtus psychrolutes'' Günther, 1860 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottoperca Gobio
''Cottoperca'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Bovichtidae, the temperate icefishes or thornfishes. They are found in the southeastern Pacific, southwestern Atlantic and northern Southern Oceans off southern South America. Taxonomy ''Cottoperca'' was first formally described as a genus in 1875 by the Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner with ''Cottoperca rosenbergii'' which Steindachner described as its only species. ''C. rosenbergii w''as later found to be a synonym of ''Batrachus trigloides'' which had been described by the German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster in 1801. Some taxonomic authorities consider that ''Cottoperca'' is monotypic and that the only valid species is ''C. gobio'', while others state the only valid species is ''C. trigloides'', although this is not the position taken by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World, World Register of Marine Species, FishBase or the Catalog of Fishes, which all give the genus 2 species. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudaphritis Urvillii
The congoli (''Pseudaphritis urvillii''), also known as the freshwater flathead, marble fish, marbled flathead, sand trout, sanding, sandy, sandy whiting or tupong. is a species of marine ray-finned fish and it is the only species of fish in the monotypic family Pseudaphritidae and the genus ''Pseudaphritis''. It was initially classified as a member of the family Bovichtidae. Taxonomy The congoli was first formally described as ''Aphritis urvillii'' in 1832 by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes but the name ''Aphritis'' was a junior synonym of the Diptera genus '' Aphritis'' named by Pierre André Latreille in 1805. The genus ''Pseudaphritis'' was described by the French zoologist Francis de La Porte Castelnau in 1872. The family Pseudaphritidae was first named by the Australian ichthyologist Allan Riverstone McCulloch in 1929. The Pseudaphritidae are the sister family of the Bovichtidae and Eleginopidae and these are all sister to the rest of the families in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottoperca
''Cottoperca'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Bovichtidae, the temperate icefishes or thornfishes. They are found in the southeastern Pacific, southwestern Atlantic and northern Southern Oceans off southern South America. Taxonomy ''Cottoperca'' was first formally described as a genus in 1875 by the Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner with ''Cottoperca rosenbergii'' which Steindachner described as its only species. ''C. rosenbergii w''as later found to be a synonym of ''Batrachus trigloides'' which had been described by the German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster in 1801. Some taxonomic authorities consider that ''Cottoperca'' is monotypic and that the only valid species is ''C. gobio'', while others state the only valid species is ''C. trigloides'', although this is not the position taken by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World, World Register of Marine Species, FishBase or the Catalog of Fishes, which all give the genus 2 species. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudaphritis
The congoli (''Pseudaphritis urvillii''), also known as the freshwater flathead, marble fish, marbled flathead, sand trout, sanding, sandy, sandy whiting or tupong. is a species of marine ray-finned fish and it is the only species of fish in the monotypic family Pseudaphritidae and the genus ''Pseudaphritis''. It was initially classified as a member of the family Bovichtidae. Taxonomy The congoli was first formally described as ''Aphritis urvillii'' in 1832 by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes but the name ''Aphritis'' was a junior synonym of the Diptera genus '' Aphritis'' named by Pierre André Latreille in 1805. The genus ''Pseudaphritis'' was described by the French zoologist Francis de La Porte Castelnau in 1872. The family Pseudaphritidae was first named by the Australian ichthyologist Allan Riverstone McCulloch in 1929. The Pseudaphritidae are the sister family of the Bovichtidae and Eleginopidae and these are all sister to the rest of the families in the Notot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halaphritis
The flathead congoli (''Halaphritis platcephala'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the family Bovichtidae, the thornfishes or temperate icefishes. It is native to the seas off southeastern Australia. This species is the only known member of its genus. Taxonomy The flathead congoli was first formally described in 2002 by Peter R. Last, Arkady Vladimirovich Balushkin and J. Barry Hutchins with the type locality given as Port Davey, Tasmania. It is the only species in the monotypic genus ''Halaphritis''. The name of the genus ''Halaphritis'' is a compound of ''halos'' meaning "sea" and ''aphritis'' which is a name which dates back to Aristotle, who used it for a type of anchovy or whitebait, but the authors used as an allusion to ''Pseudaphritis'', emphasising this species marine habitat compared to the superficially similar congoli (''Pseudaphritis urvillii''), a predominantly fresh and brackish water species. The specific name ''platycephala'' means "flat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notothenioidei
Notothenioidei is one of 19 suborders of the order Perciformes. The group is found mainly in Antarctic and Subantarctic waters, with some species ranging north to southern Australia and southern South America. Notothenioids constitute approximately 90% of the fish biomass in the continental shelf waters surrounding Antarctica. Evolution and geographic distribution The Southern Ocean has supported fish habitats for 400 million years; however, modern notothenioids likely appeared sometime after the Eocene epoch. This period marked the cooling of the Southern Ocean, resulting in the stable, ice-cold conditions that have persisted to the present day. Another key factor in the evolution of notothenioids is the preponderance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), a large, slow-moving current that extends to the seafloor and precludes most migration to and from the Antarctic region. These unique environmental conditions in concert with the key evolutionary innovation of Antif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleginopidae
The Patagonian blennie (''Eleginops maclovinus''), also known as the rock cod, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the monotypic family Eleginopidae and monotypic genus ''Eleginops''. It is found in coastal and estuarine habitats around southernmost South America. Taxonomy The Patagonian blennie was first formally described in 1830 as ''Eleginus maclovinus'' by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier with the type locality given as the Falkland Islands. Cuvier's genus name was later shown to be unavailable as it was a junior synonym of the cod genus '' Eleginus'' described by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim in 1813, Theodore Nicholas Gill renamed the genus as ''Eleginops'', meaning "similar to ''Eleginus'' in 1862. Gill then placed it in the monotypic family Eleginopidae in 1893. The specific name ''maclovinus'' means belonging to the Maclove Islands, an old name for the Falkland Islands. The Eleginopidae are the sister family of the Bovichtidae and Pseudaphritidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perciformes
Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means "perch-like". Perciformes is an Order within the Clade Percomorpha consisting of "perch-like" Percomorphans. This group comprises over 10,000 species found in almost all aquatic ecosystems. The order contains about 160 families, which is the most of any order within the vertebrates. It is also the most variably sized order of vertebrates, ranging from the ''Schindleria brevipinguis'' to the marlin in the genus ''Makaira''. They first appeared and diversified in the Late Cretaceous. Among the well-known members of this group are perch and darters (Percidae), sea bass and groupers (Serranidae). Characteristics The dorsal and anal fins are divided into anterior spiny and posterior soft-rayed portions, which may be partially or compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glossary Of Ichthyology
This glossary of ichthyology is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in ichthyology, the study of fishes. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W {{glossaryend * Fishkeeping Ichthyology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkady Vladimirovich Balushkin
Arkady (russian: Арка́дий, Arkadiy) is a Slavic masculine given name, ultimately derived from the Greek name Αρκάδιος, meaning “from Arcadia”. The Latin equivalent is Arcadius. Notable people with the name include: People: *Arkady Andreasyan (born 1947), Armenian former football player and manager * Arkadios Dimitrakopoulos (1824-1908), Greek merchant *Arcady Aris (1901–1942), Chuvash writer *Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925), Russian playwright and satirist * Arkady Babchenko (born 1977), Russian journalist *Arcady Boytler (1895–1965), Russian Mexican filmmaker *Arkady Mikhailovich Chernetsky (born 1950), mayor of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia as of 2007 *Arkady Chernyshev (1914–1992), Soviet ice hockey and soccer player *Arkady Fiedler (1894–1985), Polish writer, journalist and adventurer *Arkady Filippenko (1912–1983), Soviet Ukrainian composer *Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941), Soviet writer whose stories were very popular among Soviet children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
