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Pristigenys Refulgens
''Pristigenys'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, ''P. substriata'', which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy. The extant species have been classified in the genus ''Pseudopriacanthus'' which both Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes treat as a synonym of ''Pristigenys'', but recent work has argued that they should be separated based on numerous differences in the cranial region and the fins.Starnes, W.C., 1988. "Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae." Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(2):117-203. Species The following species are classified in the genus ''Pristigenys'': * ''Pristigenys alta'' (Gill, 1862) - Short bigeye * '' Pristigenys meyeri'' ( Günther, 1872) * '' Pristigenys niphonia'' (Cuvier, 1829) - Japanese bigeye * '' Pristigenys refulgens'' (Valenciennes, 1862) * '' Pristigenys serrula'' (Gilb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holotype
A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several examples, but explicitly designated as the holotype. Under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), a holotype is one of several kinds of name-bearing types. In the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and ICZN, the definitions of types are similar in intent but not identical in terminology or underlying concept. For example, the holotype for the butterfly '' Plebejus idas longinus'' is a preserved specimen of that subspecies, held by the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. In botany, an isotype is a duplicate of the holotype, where holotype and isotypes are often pieces from the same individual plant or samples from the same gathering. A holotype is not necessarily "typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pristigenys Alta
''Pristigenys alta'', the toro or short bigeye, is a species of fish in the family Priacanthidae. Some anglers refer to this fish as "toro snapper", but it is not a snapper, and only distantly related to the fish of the snapper family. Description The most noticeable characteristic of ''Pristigenys alta'' is its very large eyes. This species is blunt, bright red, and ovate, with a flattened, disk-like body. It is commonly about 20 cm in length, but can grow to maximum length of 30 cm. It has rough scales, and large ventral fins. Distribution This species is found in the Western Atlantic along the east coast of North America from North Carolina southwards, the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea and West Indies. Habitat ''Pristigenys alta'' is a solitary marine fish that lives mainly in reef areas at depths of between 5 and 200 metres. It can also be found on rocky bottoms. References alta Alta or ALTA may refer to: Acronyms * Alt-A, short for Alternative A-pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extinct Fish
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "reappears" (typically in the fossil record) after a period of apparent absence. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth, amounting to over five billion species, are estimated to have died out. It is estimated that there are currently around 8.7 million species of eukaryote globally, and possibly many times more if microorganisms, like bacteria, are included. Notable extinct animal species include non-avian dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, dodos, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pristigenys
''Pristigenys'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, ''P. substriata'', which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy. The extant species have been classified in the genus ''Pseudopriacanthus'' which both Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes treat as a synonym of ''Pristigenys'', but recent work has argued that they should be separated based on numerous differences in the cranial region and the fins.Starnes, W.C., 1988. "Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae." Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(2):117-203. Species The following species are classified in the genus ''Pristigenys'': * ''Pristigenys alta'' (Gill, 1862) - Short bigeye * '' Pristigenys meyeri'' ( Günther, 1872) * '' Pristigenys niphonia'' (Cuvier, 1829) - Japanese bigeye * '' Pristigenys refulgens'' (Valenciennes, 1862) * '' Pristigenys serrula'' (Gilber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishes Of The World
''Fishes of the World'' by the American ichthyologist Joseph S. Nelson (1937–2011) is a standard reference for fish systematics. Now in its fifth edition (2016), the work is a comprehensive overview of the diversity and classification of the 30,000-plus fish species known to science. The book begins with a general overview of ichthyology, although it is not self-contained. After a short section on Chordata and non-fish taxa, the work lists all known fish families in a systematic fashion. Each family (biology), family gets at least one paragraph, and usually a body outline drawing; large families have subfamilies and tribes described as well. Notable genera and species are mentioned, while the book generally does not deal with the species-level diversity. The complexities of the higher taxa are described succinctly, with many references for difficult points. The book does not involve color illustrations. The fourth edition was the first to incorporate the wide use of DNA analy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pristigenys Substriatus
''Pristigenys'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, ''P. substriata'', which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy. The extant species have been classified in the genus ''Pseudopriacanthus'' which both Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes treat as a synonym of ''Pristigenys'', but recent work has argued that they should be separated based on numerous differences in the cranial region and the fins.Starnes, W.C., 1988. "Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae." Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(2):117-203. Species The following species are classified in the genus ''Pristigenys'': * ''Pristigenys alta'' (Gill, 1862) - Short bigeye * '' Pristigenys meyeri'' ( Günther, 1872) * '' Pristigenys niphonia'' (Cuvier, 1829) - Japanese bigeye * '' Pristigenys refulgens'' (Valenciennes, 1862) * '' Pristigenys serrula'' (Gilb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henry Gilbert
Charles Henry Gilbert (December 5, 1859 in Rockford, Illinois – April 20, 1928 in Palo Alto, California) was a pioneer ichthyologist and Fisheries science, fishery biologist of particular significance to natural history of the western United States. He collected and studied fishes from Central America north to Alaska and described many new species. Later he became an expert on Pacific salmon and was a noted conservation movement, conservationist of the Pacific Northwest. He is considered by many as the intellectual founder of American fisheries biology. He was one of the 22 "pioneer professors" (founding faculty) of Stanford University. Early life and education Born in Rockford, Illinois, Gilbert spent his early years in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he came under the influence of his high school teacher, David Starr Jordan (1851‒1931). When Jordan became Professor of Natural History at Butler University in Indianapolis, Gilbert followed and received his B.A. degree in 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pristigenys Serrula
The popeye catalufa (''Pristigenys serrula''), also known as the bigeye soldierfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae, the bigeyes. This fish has an overall dusky orange to red colour with white markings. The dorsal fin appears feathery while rest of fins have black margins. It occurs in the eastern Pacific, where it is found from Oregon to Chile. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of in length. This species is nocturnal and shy , preferring deeper waters off islands. It has been recorded associating with squirrelfishes and cardinalfishes but the popeye catalufa goes as deep as , deeper than its associated species. This species has been recorded from rocky habitats at depths of less than to over . It is a carnivorous species and, when kept in captivity, is known to feed on worms, crustaceans and brittle stars. Geographic Range Pristigenys serrula is found as an unfragmented population all the way fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achille Valenciennes
Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794 – 13 April 1865) was a French zoologist. Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. His study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology. He also carried out diverse systematic classifications, linking fossil and current species. He worked with Cuvier on the 22-volume "'' Histoire Naturelle des Poissons''" (Natural History of Fish) (1828–1848), carrying on alone after Cuvier died in 1832. In 1832, he succeeded Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850) as chair of ''Histoire naturelle des mollusques, des vers et des zoophytes'' at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Early in his career, he was given the task of classifying animals described by Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) during his travels in the American tropics (1799 to 1803), and a lasting friendship was established between the two men. He is the binomial authority for many species of fish, such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pristigenys Refulgens
''Pristigenys'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, ''P. substriata'', which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy. The extant species have been classified in the genus ''Pseudopriacanthus'' which both Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes treat as a synonym of ''Pristigenys'', but recent work has argued that they should be separated based on numerous differences in the cranial region and the fins.Starnes, W.C., 1988. "Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae." Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(2):117-203. Species The following species are classified in the genus ''Pristigenys'': * ''Pristigenys alta'' (Gill, 1862) - Short bigeye * '' Pristigenys meyeri'' ( Günther, 1872) * '' Pristigenys niphonia'' (Cuvier, 1829) - Japanese bigeye * '' Pristigenys refulgens'' (Valenciennes, 1862) * '' Pristigenys serrula'' (Gilb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. Cuvier's work is considered the foundation of vertebrate paleontology, and he expanded Linnaean taxonomy by grouping classes into phylum, phyla and incorporating both fossils and living species into the classification. Cuvier is also known for establishing extinction as a fact—at the time, extinction was considered by many of Cuvier's contemporaries to be merely controversial speculation. In his ''Essay on the Theory of the Earth'' (1813) Cuvier proposed that now-extinct species had been wiped out by periodic catastrophi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pristigenys Niphonia
''Pristigenys niphonia'', the Japanese bigeye, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It occurs in the western Pacific Ocean. Distribution The Japanese bigeye is found in the western Pacific. Specifically, it is found in the marine waters around: Japan, the East China Sea Shelf, Taiwan, South China Sea, Vietnam, Celebes, Australia, and Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine .... References EOL.org* Iwatsuki, Y., T. Matsuda, W.C. Starnes, T. Nakabo and T. Yoshino. (2012). "A valid priacanthid species, Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862), and a redescription of P. niphonia (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829) in the Indo-West Pacific (Perciformes: Priacanthidae)". ''Zootaxa'' 3206:41-57. * Starnes, W.C. (1988). "Revision, phy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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