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Epigonidae
Epigonidae, the deepwater cardinalfishes, are a family of acropomatiform ray-finned fishes. The family includes about 43 species. They are small fishes: the largest, ''Epigonus telescopus'', reaches in length, and most grow to no more than or so. They are found in temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world. They are bathydemersal fishes (inhabiting deep waters close to the sea bed) and have been found at depths of . Timeline ImageSize = width:1000px height:auto barincrement:15px PlotArea = left:10px bottom:50px top:10px right:10px Period = from:-65.5 till:10 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:-65.5 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:-65.5 TimeAxis = orientation:hor AlignBars = justify Colors = #legends id:CAR value:claret id:ANK value:rgb(0.4,0.3,0.196) id:HER value:teal id:HAD value:green id:OMN value:blue id:black value:black id:white value:white id:cenozoic ...
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Epigonus Pandionis
''Epigonus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family (biology), family Epigonidae found in the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean. The genus was erected by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1810. Species There are currently 37 recognized species in this genus: * ''Epigonus affinis'' Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin, Parin & Alexei Alexandrovich Abramov, Abramov, 1986 (smooth-nose deep-water cardinalfish) Okamoto, M., Motomura, H. & Asahida, T. (2011)Redescription of a Poorly Known Deepwater Cardinalfish, ''Epigonus affinis'' (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Epigonidae), and Comparison with Related Species.''Species Diversity'', 16 (3-4): 85-92. * ''Epigonus angustifrons'' Alexei Alexandrovich Abramov, Abramov & Leonid Georgievich Manilo, Manilo, 1987 * ''Epigonus atherinoides'' (Charles Henry Gilbert, C. H. Gilbert, 1905) * ''Epigonus carbonarius'' Makoto Okamoto, Okamoto & Hiroyuki Motomura, Motomura, 2011 (charcoal deep-water cardinalfish) Okamoto, M. & M ...
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Epigonus (fish)
''Epigonus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Epigonidae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. The genus was erected by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1810. Species There are currently 37 recognized species in this genus: * '' Epigonus affinis'' Parin & Abramov, 1986 (smooth-nose deep-water cardinalfish) Okamoto, M., Motomura, H. & Asahida, T. (2011)Redescription of a Poorly Known Deepwater Cardinalfish, ''Epigonus affinis'' (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Epigonidae), and Comparison with Related Species.''Species Diversity'', 16 (3-4): 85-92. * '' Epigonus angustifrons'' Abramov & Manilo, 1987 * '' Epigonus atherinoides'' ( C. H. Gilbert, 1905) * '' Epigonus carbonarius'' Okamoto & Motomura, 2011 (charcoal deep-water cardinalfish) Okamoto, M. & Motomura, H. (2011)''Epigonus carbonarius'', a new species of deepwater cardinalfish (Perciformes: Epigonidae) from the Marquesas Islands, with a redefinition of the ''Epigonus oligolepis'' group.''Ichthyologi ...
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Epigonidae
Epigonidae, the deepwater cardinalfishes, are a family of acropomatiform ray-finned fishes. The family includes about 43 species. They are small fishes: the largest, ''Epigonus telescopus'', reaches in length, and most grow to no more than or so. They are found in temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world. They are bathydemersal fishes (inhabiting deep waters close to the sea bed) and have been found at depths of . Timeline ImageSize = width:1000px height:auto barincrement:15px PlotArea = left:10px bottom:50px top:10px right:10px Period = from:-65.5 till:10 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:-65.5 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:-65.5 TimeAxis = orientation:hor AlignBars = justify Colors = #legends id:CAR value:claret id:ANK value:rgb(0.4,0.3,0.196) id:HER value:teal id:HAD value:green id:OMN value:blue id:black value:black id:white value:white id:cenozoic ...
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Brephostoma
''Brephostoma carpenteri'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Epigonidae, the deepwater cardinalfishes. It occurs in the Pacific Ocean around Papua New Guinea and Hawaii, where it can be found at depths from . This species is the only known member of its genus. The species name honors Alfred Carpenter RN DSO (father of Vice-Admiral Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, VC), who was in command of the ship carrying out the marine survey during which the type specimen In biology, a type is a particular wikt:en:specimen, specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated. In other words, a type is an example that serves to ancho ... was collected.Alcock, A. 1889. XVI. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer ''Investigator'', Commander Alfred Carpenter, R.N., D.S.O., commanding. No. 13. On the bathybial fishes of the Bay of Bengal and neighboring waters, obtained during ...
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Microichthys
''Microichthys'' is a genus of very small deepwater cardinalfishes which were only known from the Strait of Messina in the Mediterranean Sea, although ''M. coccoi'' has recently been recorded in the Aegean Sea and around the Azores. Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: * '' Microichthys atlanticus'' Fricke, Ordines, Williston, 2020 * '' Microichthys coccoi'' Rüppell, 1852 * '' Microichthys grandis'' Wageningen Marine Research Wageningen Marine Research (WMR) is a research institute of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) which is focused on strategic and applied marine ecological research. Wageningen Marine Research was created in 2006 by the merger of the Nation ..., 2023 (great deepwater cardinalfish) * '' Microichthys sanzoi'' Spartà, 1950 References Epigonidae {{Perciformes-stub ...
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Epigonus Telescopus
''Epigonus telescopus'', the black cardinal fish, is a species of deepwater cardinalfish found in most temperate oceans worldwide, at depths of between though mostly between . It can reach a length of TL though most specimens do not exceed TL. It has been reported that this species can reach an age of 104 years. Description The black cardinal fish is a shallow-bodied fish with large eyes and a blunt snout and slightly projecting lower jaw. The dorsal fin is in two parts and has seven or eight spines and nine to eleven soft rays. The anal fin has two spines and nine soft rays. The general colour of this fish is purplish-brown or black and living specimens are iridescent. Distribution and habitat The black cardinal fish is a deepwater bentho-pelagic fish that is found on continental slopes, undersea ridges and seamounts in the northern Atlantic, ranging from Iceland to the Canary Islands and the Corner Rise Seamounts. It is also found in the southeastern Atlantic, includin ...
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Sphyraenops
The triplespine deepwater cardinalfish (''Sphyraenops bairdianus'') is a species of deepwater cardinalfish of probably cosmopolitan distribution at depths from . This species is the only known member of its genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino .... References Epigonidae Fish described in 1861 {{Perciformes-stub ...
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Rosenblattia
The stout cardinalfish (''Rosenblattia robusta'') is a species of deepwater cardinalfish found around the world in southern temperate waters, where it occurs at depths from . This species can reach in TL. It is currently the only known member of its genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino .... References Epigonidae Fish described in 1965 {{Perciformes-stub ...
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Florenciella (fish)
''Florenciella lugubris'' is a species of deepwater cardinalfish native to the Indian Ocean, where it is found at depths from . It grows to in TL. This species is the only known member of its genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino .... References Epigonidae Fish described in 1965 {{Perciformes-stub ...
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Theodore Nicholas Gill
Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist, and librarian. Career Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural history. He was associated with J. Carson Brevoort in the arrangement of the latter's entomological and ichthyological collections before going to Washington, DC, in 1863 to work at the Smithsonian Institution. He catalogued mammals, fishes, and mollusks most particularly, although he maintained proficiency in other orders of animals. He was librarian at the Smithsonian and also senior assistant to the Library of Congress. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1867. Gill was professor of zoology at George Washington University. He was also a member of the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Fellow members frequently mocked him for his vanity. He was president of the American Associati ...
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Eduard Rüppell
Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell, also spelled Rueppell (20 November 1794 – 10 December 1884) was a German Natural history, naturalist and List of explorers, explorer, best known for his collections and descriptions of plants and animals from Africa and Arabia. Biography Rüppell was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of a prosperous banker, who was a partner in 'Rüppell und Harnier’s Bank'. He was originally destined to be a merchant, but after a visit to Sinai Peninsula, Sinai in 1817, where he met Henry Salt (Egyptologist), Henry Salt and the Swiss-German traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Ludwig Burckhardt. He explored Giza and the Pyramids with Salt. In 1818, he developed an interest in natural history, and became elected member of the ''Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft''. He attended lectures at the University of Pavia and University of Genoa in botany and zoology. Rüppell set off on his first expedition in 1821, accompanied by surgeon Michael Hey as ...
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Josie Elizabeth De Falla
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