Amarsipus is the sole genus in the bagless glassfish family, Amarsipidae. It contains the single species Amarsipus carlsbergi, the amarsipa, which is a small and slender fish that lives in equatorial parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is found at depths from 30 to 130 m (98 to 427 ft). It reaches 21.2 cm (8.3 in) in standard length.[3] Molecular phylogenetic analysis has placed this family in the Scombriformes within Pelagiaria; however, relationships between many pelagiarian lineages are poorly resolved and the nearest relatives of Amarsipidae remain unclear.[4]
| Amarsipus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Suborder: | Stromateoidei |
| Family: | Amarsipidae Haedrich, 1969 [2] |
| Genus: | Amarsipus Haedrich, 1969 [1] |
| Species: | A. carlsbergi
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| Binomial name | |
| Amarsipus carlsbergi | |
References edit
- ^ a b Nicolas Bailly (2009). Nicolas Bailly (ed.). "Amarsipus carlsbergi Haedrich, 1969". World Database of Marine Pisces. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
- ^ Ryu Doiuchi & Tetsuji Nakabo (2006). "Molecular phylogeny of the stromateoid fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences and compared with morphology-based hypotheses". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 39 (1): 111–123. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.10.007. PMID 16314116.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Amarsipus carlsbergi" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ^ Campbell, Matthew A.; Sado, Tetsuya; Shinzato, Chuya; Koyanagi, Ryo; Okamoto, Makoto; Miya, Masaki (2018). "Multilocus phylogenetic analysis of the first molecular data from the rare and monotypic Amarsipidae places the family within the Pelagia and highlights limitations of existing data sets in resolving pelagian interrelationships". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 124: 172–180. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.008. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 29526805. S2CID 4856729.
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