Chanidae
Chanidae | |
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Chanos chanos | |
110 million year old fossil †Dastilbe from Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gonorynchiformes |
Suborder: | |
Family: | Chanidae Günther, 1868[1] |
Type genus | |
Chanos | |
Subfamilies | |
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Chanidae is a family of fishes which has a number of fossil genera and one monotypic extant genus which contains the milkfish (Chanos chanos).[3]
Taxonomy[]
The family Chanidae is subdivided into two subfamilies, the , which comprises the extinct genera †, † and †Rubiesichthys from the early Cretaceous, and the which comprises the sole extant genus Chanos and the extinct genera †Dastilbe, † and †Tharrhias, also from the early Cretacaeous.[4]
References[]
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. Archived from the original on 2021-03-10. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Chanidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ R. Froese; D. Pauly, eds. (2017). "Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775) Milkfish". Fishbase. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ Nelson, Joseph, S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
Categories:
- Chanidae
- Marine fish families
- Albian taxonomic families
- Cenomanian taxonomic families
- Turonian taxonomic families
- Coniacian taxonomic families
- Santonian taxonomic families
- Campanian taxonomic families
- Maastrichtian taxonomic families
- Danian taxonomic families
- Selandian taxonomic families
- Thanetian taxonomic families
- Ypresian taxonomic families
- Lutetian taxonomic families
- Bartonian taxonomic families
- Priabonian taxonomic families
- Rupelian taxonomic families
- Chattian taxonomic families
- Aquitanian taxonomic families
- Burdigalian taxonomic families
- Langhian taxonomic families
- Serravallian taxonomic families
- Tortonian taxonomic families
- Messinian taxonomic families
- Zanclean taxonomic families
- Piacenzian taxonomic families
- Gelasian taxonomic families
- Calabrian taxonomic families
- Ionian taxonomic families
- Tarantian taxonomic families
- Holocene taxonomic families
- Taxa named by Albert Günther
- Ray-finned fish families