Banjos (fish)
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Suborder: | Percoidei |
Superfamily: | Percoidea |
Family: | Banjosidae D.S. Jordan and W.F. Thompson, 1912[2] |
Genus: | Banjos Bleeker, 1876[1] |
Type species | |
Anoplus banjos Richardson, 1846
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Species | |
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Synonyms[3] | |
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Banjos is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, the only genus in the monotypic family Banjosidae, part of the perciform superfamily Percoidea[4] They are native to the western Indian and the Atlantic coasts of Africa.[5] and is made up of the three species of banjofishes.[5]
Species[]
Banjos has three species currently recognised species:[5][3]
- & , 2017 (Eastern Australian banjofish)
- Banjos banjos (John Richardson, 1846) (Banjofish)
- Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Timor Sea banjofish)
References[]
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Banjos". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ a b Mizuki Matsunuma & Hiroyuki Motomura (2017). "Review of the genus Banjos (Perciformes: Banjosidae) with descriptions of two new species and a new subspecies". Ichthyological Research. 64 (3): 265–294. doi:10.1007/s10228-016-0569-9. S2CID 5630490. Abstract
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 444. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- ^ a b c Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Banjos in FishBase. December 2019 version.
Categories:
- Percoidea
- Banjosidae
- Ray-finned fish genera