''Pteropsaron'' is a
genus
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of
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 ...
in the
family
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Percophidae
The Percophidae, duckbills, are a family of percomorph fishes, from the order Trachiniformes, found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and in the southwestern and southeastern Pacific.
They are small fishes: the ...
.
Species
There are currently 9 recognized species of this genus:
* ''
Pteropsaron dabfar''
Iwamoto, 2014 [Iwamoto, T. (2014): Two New Hemerocoetine Trichonotidae Fishes (Teleostei, Perciformes) from the Philippines. ''Pp. 251-261 in: Williams, G.C. & Gosliner, T.M. (eds.): The Coral Triangle. The 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition, 2014: 1-592''.]
* ''
Pteropsaron evolans''
D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1902
* ''
Pteropsaron heemstrai''
J. S. Nelson, 1982
* ''
Pteropsaron incisum''
C. H. Gilbert, 1905
* ''
Pteropsaron levitoni''
Iwamoto, 2014
* ''
Pteropsaron longipinnis''
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 ...
, 2012 (Midwater sand-diver)
* ''
Pteropsaron natalensis''
J. S. Nelson, 1982
* ''
Pteropsaron neocaledonicus''
Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979
* ''
Pteropsaron springeri''
D. G. Smith & G. D. Johnson, 2007 (Springer's sand-diver)
*''
Pterospsaron indicum'', 2019
References
Percophidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Taxa named by John Otterbein Snyder
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