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Horsefish
Congiopodidae, commonly known as pigfishes, horsefishes and racehorses, is a family of ray-finned fish classified with in the order Scorpaeniformes. These fishes are native to the Southern Hemisphere. Taxonomy Congiopodidae was first formally recognised as a family by the American biologist Theodore Gill in 1889. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies the family within the suborder Scorpaenoidei which in turn is classified within the order Scorpaeniformes. Other authorities place the Scorpaenoidei within the Perciformes. The monophyly of the Congiopodidae as set out in ''Fishes of the World'' is not universally agreed upon. Some authorities classify the genus ''Perryena'' in its own subfamily, Perryeninae, in the stonefish family Synanceiidae. The genera ''Alertichthys'' and ''Zanclorhynchus'' are classified within the family Zanclorhynchidae leaving ''Congiopodus'' as the only genus in the monotypic Congiopodidae. The name of the family is based on that of the gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congiopodus Torvus
The smooth horsefish (''Congiopodus torvus'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Congiopodidae, the horsefishes or pigfishes. It is found in the waters off Southern Africa. Taxonomy The smooth horsefish was first formally described as ''Blennius torvus'' in 1772 by the Dutch zoologist Laurens Theodoor Gronow with the type locality given, probably in error, as the Indian Ocean. In 1811 the English naturalist George Perry described a new species, ''Congiopodus percatus'' which he classified in a new monotypic genus, ''Congiopodus''. This taxon was subsequently considered to be a junior synonym of Gronow's ''Blennius torvus'', so this species is the type species of its genus as ''C. percatus''. The specific name ''torvus'' means "staring eyes", an allusion Gronow did not expand upon but which may refer to the placement of the eyes on the each side at the top of the head. Description The smooth horsefish is a compressed fish with a long continuous do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zanclorhynchus
''Zanclorhynchus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Congiopodidae, the pigfishes or horsefishes. These fishes are found in the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy ''Zanclorhynchus'' was first described as a genus in 1880 by the German-born British ichthyologist Albert Günther as a monotypic genus, its only member being the new species Günther described in the same paper, ''Zanclorhynchus spinifer'', with its type locality given as Kerguelen Island. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies this genus in the family Congiopodidae but other authorities classify it within the family Zanclorhynchidae, alongside the genus '' Alertichthys''. The genus name is a compound of ''zanklon'', which means "sickle", and ''rhynchus'', meaning "snout", assumed to be an allusion to the pointed snout of adult ''Z. spinifer''. Species ''Zanclorhynchus'' contains 2 recognised species: * '' Zanclorhynchus chereshnevi'' Balushkin & Zhukov, 2016 (Chereshnev's horsefis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congiopodus
''Congiopodus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Congiopodidae, the pigfishes or horsefishes. These fishes are found in the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Taxonomy Congiopodus was first formally described as a genus in 1811 by the English naturalist George Perry when he described ''Congiopodus percatus'', the type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ... by monotypy. Subsequently, Perry's species was shown to be a junior synonym of ''Blennius torvus'' which had been described by the Dutch people, Dutch zoologist Laurens Theodorus Gronovius, Laurens Theodorus Gronow in 1772, with an erroneous Type locality (biology), type locality of the Indian Ocean given for this southern African species. The genus is the type genus of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congiopodidae
Congiopodidae, commonly known as pigfishes, horsefishes and racehorses, is a family of ray-finned fish classified with in the order Scorpaeniformes. These fishes are native to the Southern Hemisphere. Taxonomy Congiopodidae was first formally recognised as a family by the American biologist Theodore Gill in 1889. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies the family within the suborder Scorpaenoidei which in turn is classified within the order Scorpaeniformes. Other authorities place the Scorpaenoidei within the Perciformes. The monophyly of the Congiopodidae as set out in ''Fishes of the World'' is not universally agreed upon. Some authorities classify the genus ''Perryena'' in its own subfamily, Perryeninae, in the stonefish family Synanceiidae. The genera ''Alertichthys'' and ''Zanclorhynchus'' are classified within the family Zanclorhynchidae leaving ''Congiopodus'' as the only genus in the monotypic Congiopodidae. The name of the family is based on that of the ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scorpaeniformes
The Scorpaeniformes are a diverse order of ray-finned fish, including the lionfishes and sculpins, but have also been called the Scleroparei. It is one of the five largest orders of bony fishes by number of species, with over 1,320. They are known as "mail-cheeked" fishes due to their distinguishing characteristic, the suborbital stay: a backwards extension of the third circumorbital bone (part of the lateral head/cheek skeleton, below the eye socket) across the cheek to the pre operculum, to which it is connected in most species. Scorpaeniform fishes are carnivorous, mostly feeding on crustaceans and on smaller fish. Most species live on the sea bottom in relatively shallow waters, although species are known from deep water, from the midwater, and even from fresh water. They typically have spiny heads, and rounded pectoral and caudal fins. Most species are less than in length, but the full size range of the order varies from the velvetfishes belonging to the family Aploactin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scorpaenoidei
Scorpaenoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes, part of the order Scorpaeniformes, that includes the scorpionfishes, lionfishes and velvetfishes. This suborder is at its most diverse in the Pacific and Indian Oceans but is also found in the Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy Scorpaenoidei was first named as a suborder in 1899 by the American ichthyologist Samuel Garman as a suborder of the Perciformes. Some authorities still treat the suborder as being part of the Perciformes but the 5th Edition of ''Fishes of the World'' recognises the Scorpaeniformes as a valid order and places this suborder within it. The subfamilies of the family Scorpaenidae are treated as families by some authors. It has been argued by some authors that the suborder is paraphyletic and that a more correct classification is that the grouping, with some differences, be placed on the superfamily Scorpaenoidea. Families and subfamilies The suborder Scorpaenoidei is classified into families and subfamilies in the 5th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perryena
The whitenose pigfish (''Perryena leucometopon'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Congiopodidae, the horsefishes or pigfishes. It is endemic to the waters off southern and western Australia. It is the only species in the monotypic genus ''Perryena'' and the classification of that genus in the family Congiopodidae is not universally agreed upon. Taxonomy The whitenose pigfish was first formally described in 1922 as ''Congiopodus leucometopon'' by the British-born Australian zoologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and ornithologist Edgar Ravenswood Waite with the type locality given as the beach at Glenelg on Gulf St Vincent in South Australia. In 1940 Gilbert Percy Whitley reclassified this species in the monotypic genus ''Perryena''. A recent study placed the whitenose pigfish into an expanded stonefish clade, the Synanceiidae, because all of these fish have a lachrymal sabre that can project a switch-blade-like mechanism out from underneath thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Perry (naturalist)
George Perry (born 1771) was a 19th-century English naturalist, a malacologist Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, .... Perry is known for two natural history works: *''Arcana; or the museum of natural history'', published monthly from January 1810 to September 1811 *''Conchology, or the natural history of shells'', published in 181online See also * :Taxa named by George Perry (naturalist) References * J. H. Gatliff, 1902. Notes on Perry's “Conchology”. Victorian Naturalist 19(5):75-76 * C. Hedley, 1902. On Perry's Australian shells. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27(1): 24-28 * G. M. Mathews & T. Iredale, 1913. “Perry’s Arcana” – an overlooked work. Victorian Naturalist 29: 7-16 * A. T. Hopwood, 1946. Miscellaneous notes. 1. Perry's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Fish Families
This is a list of fish families sorted alphabetically by scientific name. There are 525 families in the list. __NOTOC__ A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z ---- A Ab-Am - An-Ap - Ar-Au ---- Ab-Am * Abyssocottidae * Acanthuridae * Acestrorhynchidae * Achiridae * Achiropsettidae * Acipenseridae * Acropomatidae * Adrianichthyidae * Agonidae * Akysidae * Albulidae * Alepisauridae * Alepocephalidae * Alestiidae * Alopiidae * Amarsipidae * Ambassidae * Amblycipitidae * Amblyopsidae * Amiidae * Ammodytidae * Amphiliidae An-Ap * Anabantidae * Anablepidae * Anacanthobatidae * Anarhichadidae * Anguillidae * Anomalopidae * Anoplogastridae * Anoplopomatidae * Anostomidae * Anotopteridae * Antennariidae * Aphredoderidae * Aphyonidae * Apistidae * Aploactinidae * Aplocheilidae * Aplodactylidae * Apogonidae * Apteronotidae Ar-Au * Aracanidae * Arapaimidae * Argentinid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described. Early life and career Günther was born in Esslingen in Swabia (Württemberg). His father was a ''Stiftungs-Commissar'' in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for the ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was "''Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma''". He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he published a handbook of zoology for students of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Percy Whitley
Gilbert Percy Whitley (9 June 1903 – 18 July 1975) was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years. He was born at Swaythling, Southampton, England, and was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and the Royal Naval College, Osborne. Whitley migrated with his family to Sydney in 1921 and he joined the staff of the Australian Museum in 1922 while studying zoology at Sydney Technical College and the University of Sydney. In 1925 he was formally appointed Ichthyologist (later Curator of Fishes) at the Museum, a position he held until retirement in 1964. During his term of office he doubled the size of the ichthyological collection to 37,000 specimens through many collecting expeditions. Whitley was also a major force in the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, of which he was made a Fellow in 1934 and where he served as president during 1940–41, 1959–60 and 1973–74. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Munne Moreland
John "Jock" Munne Moreland (b 11 January 1921 Wanganui d. June 2012) was a New Zealand marine biologist and ichthyologist who worked at the Dominion Museum, later the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, in Wellington. Career He was brought up and attended school in Wanganui before joining the 3rd Division (New Zealand) serving in the Pacific Theatre during and the 2nd Division (New Zealand) during World War 2. After demobilising he joined the staff of the Dominion Museum. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Biology from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1958. He was appointed as an Assistant Zoologist, with Charles McCann , who was the only vertebrate Zoologist at the museum at the time. McCann's interest was in marine mammals so he tasked Moreland with curating the collection of seabirds. This resulted in him becoming responsible for the New Zealand Bird Banding Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
