Paradicichthyinae is a

subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...

of marine

ray-finned fishes Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...

, one of four subfamilies classified within the

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Lutjanidae, the snappers.

Taxonomy

Paradicichthyinae was created as a subfamily of the Lutjanidae in 1930 by the

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ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...

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, an ...

with its type species being ''Paradicichthys venenatus'' which Whitley described at the same time. Whtley's ''P. venenatus'' was later shown to be a

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of '' Symphorus nematophorus'' which had been described by the Dutch ichthyologist

Pieter Bleeker Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the ''Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises'', his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia ...

in 1860. Whitley's name for the subfamily was retained as he was the first to identify and describe this taxon.

Genera

The subfamily Paradicichthyinae contains 2 genera and 2 species: * genus '' Symphorichthys'' Munro, 1967 * genus '' Symphorus'' Günther, 1872

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q55362915 Lutjanidae Ray-finned fish subfamilies