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Platycephalidae
The Platycephalidae are a Family (biology), family of marine ray-finned fish, most commonly referred to as flatheads. They are relatives of the lionfish, and belong to the order Perciformes. Taxonomy Platycephalidae was first proposed as a family in 1839 by the English naturalist William Swainson. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies this family within the suborder Platycephaloidei in the Order (biology), order Scorpaeniformes. Other authorities differ and do not consider the Scorpaeniformes to be a valid order because the Perciformes is not monophyletic without the taxa within the Scorpaeniformes being included within it. These authorities consider the Platycephalidae to belong to the suborder Platycephaloidei, along with the families Bembridae, Parabembras, Parabembridae, Hoplichthys, Hoplichthyidae and Plectrogeniinae, Plectrogeniidae within the Perciformes. Genera Platycephalidae has the following 17 genera (including about 86 species) classified within it: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunagocia Otaitensis
''Sunagocia'' is a genus of marine fish, marine, Demersal fish, demersal ray-finned fish belonging to the family (biology), family Platycephalidae. These fishes are native to the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Taxonomy ''Sunagocia'' was first proposed as a genus in 1996 as ''Eurycephalus'' by the Japanese ichthyologist Hisashi Imamura, with ''Thysanophrys arenicola'', which had been Species description, described by Leonard Peter Schultz from Rongelap Atoll, Naen Island, Rongelap Atoll in 1966, as its type species. In 2003 Imamura renamed the genus ''Sunagocia'' because ''Eurycephalus''is preoccupied as a Synonym (taxonomy), synonym of the longhorn beetle genus ''Tapeina''. This genus is Taxonomy (biology), classified within the family Playtcephalidae, the flatheads which the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies within the suborder Platycephaloidei in the Order (biology), order Scorpaeniformes. Etymology ''Sunagocia'' is a latinisation of ''s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platycephaloidei
Platycephaloidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes, part of the Order (biology), order Scorpaeniformes, and includes the Platycephalidae, flatheads, ghost flatheads and Triglidae, sea robins. Taxonomy Platycephaloidei was first recognised and named as a taxonomic grouping in 1943 by the Japanese ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies this group as a suborder within the Scorpaeniformes. Other authorities classify the families that make up Patycephaloidei in the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' as two suborders; the Platycephaloidei, consisting of the families Bembridae, Parabembridae (separated from Bembridae), Platycephalidae, Hoplichthyidae and Plectrogenium, Plectrogeniidae (treated as a subfamily of Scorpaenidae in ''Fishes of the World'') and the Trigloidei, including the families Triglidae and Peristediidae. The name of the suborder is taken from that of the type genus ''Platycephalus'' which means "flat head". Familie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perciformes
Perciformes (), also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. ''Perciformes'' means " perch-like". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters ( Percidae), and also sea basses and groupers (Serranidae). This order contains many familiar freshwater temperate and tropical marine fish groups, but also extremophiles that have successfully colonized both the North and South Poles, as well as the deepest depths of the ocean. Taxonomy Formerly, this group was thought to be even more diverse than it is thought to be now, containing about 41% of all bony fish (about 10,000 species) and about 160 families, which is the most of any order within the vertebrates. However, many of these other families have since been reclassified within their own orders within the clade Percomorpha, significantly reducing the size of the group. In contrast to this splitting, other groups formerly considered distinct, such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bembridae
Bembridae, the deep-water flatheads, are a family of bottom-dwelling ray-finned fishes. They are found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy Bembridae was first proposed as a family in 1873 by the German zoologist Johann Jakob Kaup. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies this family within the suborder Platycephaloidei in the order Scorpaeniformes. Other authorities differ and do not consider the Scorpaeniformes to be a valid order because the Perciformes is not monophyletic without the taxa within the Scorpaeniformes being included within it. These authorities consider the Bembridae to belong to the suborder Platycephaloidei, along with the families Parabembridae, Hoplichthyidae, Platycephalidae and Plectrogeniidae within the Perciformes. This family is thought to be more primitive than their close relatives, the true flatheads. Despite the common name, their heads are only slightly flattened and have spiny ridges. Genera Bembridae contains 5 r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoplichthys
''Hoplichthys'', the ghost flatheads, is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes native to the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Oceans. This genus is the only member of the family (biology), family Hoplichthyidae. Taxonomy Hoplichthys was first proposed as a Monotypic taxon, monotypic genus in 1829 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier when he described its type species, and only species at that time, ''H. langsdorfi'' from Japan. In 1873 the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup considered that the genus ''Hoplichthys'' was so different from other "flathead" taxa that it merited placing in a monogeneric family, the Hoplichthyidae. The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' classifies this family within the suborder Platycephaloidei in the Order (biology), order Scorpaeniformes. Other authorities differ and do not consider the Scorpaeniformes to be a valid order because the Perciformes is not monophyletic without the taxa within the Scorpaeniformes being included within it. These auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parabembras
''Parabembras'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the Family (biology), family Bembridae, the deepwater flatheads, although they are sufficiently different from the other genera in that family to be classified as their own family, Parabembradidae, by some authorities. These fishes are found in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy ''Parabembras'' was first described as a genus in 1874 by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker as a Monotypic taxon, monotypic genus with its only species being ''Bembras curtus''. which had been Species description, described in 1843 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Temminck and Hermann Schlegel, Schlegel from Nagasaki. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World places ''Parabembras'' in the family Bembridae with the other deepwater flatheads but other authorities classify it within its own monotypic family, the Parabembradidae. Parabembradidae was first proposed as a family in 1925, with the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scorpaeniformes
The Scorpaeniformes are a diverse Order (biology), order of Actinopterygii, 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 preoperculum (fish), operculum, to which it is connected in most species. Scorpaeniform fishes are carnivore, 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 fin, pectoral and caudal fins. Most species are less than in length, but the full size range o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plectrogeniinae
''Plectrogenium'', is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, the stinger flatheads, the only genus classified within the subfamily Plectrogeninae, which in turn is classified within the family Scorpaenidae. This genus is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Plectrogenium'' was originally named as a monotypic genus in 1905 by the American ichthyologist Charles Henry Gilbert when he described what was then considered to be its only species, ''Plectrogenium nanum'', from Hawaii. ''Plectrogenium'' is the only genus in the monotypic subfamily Plectrogeninae which is classified within the family Scorpaenidae in the order Scorpaeniformes by some authorities. Other authorities treat this taxon as part of a separate family Plectrogenidae, alongside the genus '' Bembradium'', and place this family in the perciform suborder Platycephaloidei. The genus name, ''Plectrogenium'', is a compound of ''plectro'', which means "spur", and ''genys'', which means "cheek"or "chin", an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionfish
''Pterois'' is a genus of venomous fish, venomous marine fish, commonly known as the lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific. It is characterized by conspicuous aposematism, warning coloration with red or black bands and ostentatious dorsal fins tipped with venomous Spine (zoology), spines. ''Pterois radiata'', ''Pterois volitans'', and ''Pterois miles'' are the most commonly studied species in the genus. ''Pterois'' species are popular aquarium fish. ''P. volitans'' and ''P. miles'' are recent and significant invasive species in the west Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and Mediterranean Sea. Taxonomy ''Pterois'' was described as a genus in 1817 by German natural history, naturalist, botany, botanist, biologist, and ornithology, ornithologist Lorenz Oken. In 1856, French naturalist Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest designated ''Scorpaena volitans'', which had been named by Marcus Elieser Bloch, Bloch in 1787 and which was the same as Linnaeus's 1758 ''Gasterosteus volitans'', as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford University, he served as president of Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University from 1885 to 1891. Jordan was also a strong supporter of eugenics, and his published views expressed a fear of "race-degeneration", asserting that cattle and human beings are "governed by the same laws of selection". He was an antimilitarist since he believed that war killed off the best members of the gene pool, and he initially opposed American involvement in World War I. Early life and education Jordan was born in Gainesville (town), New York, Gainesville, New York, and grew up on a farm in upstate New York. His parents made an unorthodox decision to educate him at a local girls' high school. His middle name, Starr, does not appear in early census records, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Douglas Ogilby
James Douglas Ogilby (16 February 1853 – 11 August 1925) was an Australian ichthyologist and herpetologist. Ogilby was born in Belfast, Ireland, and was the son of zoologist William Ogilby and his wife Adelaide, née Douglas. He received his education at Winchester College, England, and Trinity College, Dublin. Ogilby worked for the British Museum before joining the Australian Museum in Sydney. After being let go for drunkenness in 1890, he picked up contract work before joining the Queensland Museum in Brisbane circa 1903. He was the author of numerous scientific papers on reptiles, and he described a new species of turtle and several new species of lizards. Death Ogilby died on 11 August 1925 at the Diamantina Hospital in Brisbane and was buried at Toowong Cemetery. Legacy Numerous species of fish were named in Ogilby's honor: *''Callionymus ogilbyi'' (Rayfinned Fish) *''Calliurichthys ogilbyi'' (Ogilby’s Stinkfish) *''Cynoglossus ogilbyi'' (Tongue Sole) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Earl Richardson
Robert Earl Richardson (28 November 1877 – 14 April 1935) was an American aquatic biologist and ichthyologist. Richardson was born in Brighton, Illinois, on 28 November 1877. His father was Robert and his mother was Emily Dickerson Richardson. He underwent a preparatory education at DePauw University, before graduating from the University of Illinois in 1901. The university elected him as a fellow and he received a M.A. in 1903. He was a collaborator of David Starr Jordan David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford Universi ... and, as his co-author, wrote a series of scientific papers on the fishes of Formosa, the Philippines and Japan. In 1909, he took charge of the floating laboratory ran by the Natural History Survey on the Illinois River. His main contribution to ichthyology was ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
