Pristigenys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, P. substriata, which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.[4]
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| Pristigenys alta | |
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| Holotype of P. substriata: MNHN.[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Priacanthidae |
| Genus: | Pristigenys Agassiz, 1835[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Chaetodon substriatus Blainville, 1818[2]
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| Synonyms[3] | |
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Pseudopriacanthus Bleeker, 1869 | |
The extant species have been classified in the genus Pseudopriacanthus which both Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes treat as a synonym of Pristigenys,[3] but recent work has argued that they should be separated based on numerous differences in the cranial region and the fins.[4][5]
Species edit
The following species are classified in the genus Pristigenys:[6][4]
- Pristigenys alta (Gill, 1862) - Short bigeye
- Pristigenys meyeri (Günther, 1872)
- Pristigenys niphonia (Cuvier, 1829) - Japanese bigeye
- Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes, 1862)
- Pristigenys serrula (Gilbert, 1891) - Popeye catalufa
- †Pristigenys substriatus (Blainville, 1818)
References edit
- ^ Agassiz, L. (1835). "Kritische Revision der in der Ittiolitologia Veronese abgebildeten fossilen Fische". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde. 1835: 299.
- ^ de Blainville, H. D. (1818). "Des Ichthyolites du Monte Bolca, ou Vestena Nuova dans le Veronais". Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. Vol. 18. Paris: Deterville. p. 352. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.20211.
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Priacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ a b c Carnevale, Giorgio; Johnson, G. David; Marramà, Giuseppe; Bannikov, Alexandre F. (2017). "A reappraisal of the Eocene priacanthid fish Pristigenys substriata (Blainville, 1818) from Monte Bolca, Italy". Journal of Paleontology. 91 (3): 554–565. Bibcode:2017JPal...91..554C. doi:10.1017/jpa.2017.19.
- ^ Starnes, W.C., 1988. "Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae." Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(2):117-203.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Pristigenys in FishBase. December 2019 version.
Further reading edit
- Nelson, J. S. (1994). Fishes of the World, Third Edition.. xvii + 600. John Wiley and Sons. New York. ISBN 0-471-54713-1.
- Starnes, Wayne C. (1988). "Revision, Phylogeny and Biogeographic Comments on the Circumtropical Marine Percoid Fish Family Priacanthidae". Bulletin of Marine Science. 43 (2): 117–203.
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