Thornfish
The thornfishes are a family, Bovichtidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. The family is spelled Bovichthyidae in J. S. Nelson's Fishes of the World. They are native to coastal waters off Australia, New Zealand, and South America, and to rivers and lakes of southeast Australia and Tasmania.
Phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters has revealed that the family Bovichtidae is not a monophyletic group.[1][2]
Genera
There are ten species in three genera. In addition, the genus Pseudaphritis (Castelnau, 1872) has sometimes been included in this family.[3]
- Genus Bovichtus Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1832
- Bovichtus angustifrons (Regan, 1913).
- Bovichtus argentinus (MacDonagh, 1931).
- Bovichtus chilensis (Regan, 1913).
- Bovichtus diacanthus (Carmichael, 1819).
- Bovichtus oculus Hardy, 1989.
- Bovichtus psychrolutes (Günther, 1860).
- Bovichtus variegatus thornfish Richardson, 1846.
- Bovichtus veneris (Sauvage, 1879).
- Genus Cottoperca Steindachner, 1876
- Cottoperca gobio (Günther, 1861) (synonym of Cottoperca trigliodes Forster, 1801 ) [4]
- Genus Halaphritis Last, Balushkin and Hutchins, 2002
- Halaphritis platycephala Last, Balushkin & Hutchins, 2002.
Notes
- ^ Balushkin, A. V. (1992) "Classification, phylogenetic relationships, and origins of the families of the suborder Notothenioidei (Perciformes)" Journal of Ichthyology 32: pp. 90–110
- ^ Lecointre, G. et al. (1997) "Molecular phylogeny of the Antarctic fishes: paraphyly of the Bovichitidae and no indication for the monophyly of the Notothenioidei (Teleostei)" Polar Biology 18: pp. 193–208
- ^ Last, P. R.; Balushkin, A. V. and Hutchins, J. B. (May 2002) "Halaphritis platycephala (Notothenioidei: Bovichtidae): A New Genus and Species of Temperate Icefish from Southeastern Australia" Copeia 2002(2): pp. 433-440, p. 433
- ^ "Catalog of Fishes". California Academy of Sciences - Ichthyology. 2008. http://research.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
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