''Acanthoplesiops'' is a
genus
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of
reef
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-dwelling
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
es belonging to the family
Plesiopidae
The longfins, also known as roundheads or spiny basslets, are a family, Plesiopidae, which were formerly placed in the order Perciformes but are now regarded as being ''incertae sedis'' in the subseries Ovalentaria in the clade Percomorpha. They a ...
. All species are very small, with the largest specimen recorded only reaching 27 mm
standard length
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology.
Overall length
* Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...
. They have several features which distinguish them from other plesiopids, the most obvious of which is the presence of one or two spines on the
operculum.
Species
There are currently 6 recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Acanthoplesiops cappuccino''
A. C. Gill, Bogorodsky & A. O. Mal, 2013 (Red Sea spiny basslet)
[Gill, A.C., Bogorodsky, S.V. & Mal, A.O. (2013): ''Acanthoplesiops cappuccino'', a new species of acanthoclinine fish from the Red Sea (Teleostei: Plesiopidae). ''Zootaxa, 3750 (3): 216–222.'']
* ''
Acanthoplesiops echinatus''
Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 1990 (Hiatt's longfin)
* ''
Acanthoplesiops hiatti''
L. P. Schultz, 1953 (Hiatt's basslet)
* ''
Acanthoplesiops indicus''
F. Day, 1888 (Scottie)
* ''
Acanthoplesiops jessicae''
G. R. Allen, Erdmann Erdmann is a first name and surname, and may refer to:
Surname
*Carl Erdmann (1898—1945), German historian
*Eduard Erdmann (1896—1958), Baltic German pianist and composer
*Hans Otto Erdmann (1896–1944), member of the German resistance
*Hugo E ...
& William M. Brooks, 2020[Gerald R. Allen, Mark V. Erdmann and William M. Brooks: Acanthoplesiops jessicae, a new species of spiny basslet (Acanthoclininae: Plesiopidae) from Papua New Guinea, pp 57-65 ,
https://aqua-aquapress.com/product/aqua-262_acanthoplesiops-jessicae/]
* ''
Acanthoplesiops naka''
Mooi & A. C. Gill, 2004 (Tongan spiny basslet)
* ''
Acanthoplesiops psilogaster''
Hardy
Hardy may refer to:
People
* Hardy (surname)
* Hardy (given name)
* Hardy (singer), American singer-songwriter Places Antarctica
* Mount Hardy, Enderby Land
* Hardy Cove, Greenwich Island
* Hardy Rocks, Biscoe Islands
Australia
* Hardy, Sout ...
, 1985 (Barebelly longfin)
References
Acanthoclininae
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