Epigonus (genus)
| Epigonus | |
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| Epigonus denticulatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Epigonidae |
| Genus: | Epigonus Rafinesque, 1810 |
| Type species | |
| Epigonus macrophthalmus Rafinesque, 1810 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Oxyodon A. B. Brauer, 1906 | |
Epigonus is a genus of fish in the family Epigonidae, the deepwater cardinalfishes. The genus is cosmopolitan in distribution.
Species
There are 36 species in this genus:[1]
- Epigonus affinis Parin & Abramov, 1986 – smooth-nose deepwater cardinalfish
- Epigonus angustifrons Abramov & Manilo, 1987
- Epigonus atherinoides (C. H. Gilbert, 1905)
- Epigonus carbonarius Okamoto & Motomura, 2011 – charcoal deepwater cardinalfish
- Epigonus cavaticus H. Ida, Okamoto & Sakaue, 2007 – Palauan deepwater cardinalfish
- Epigonus chilensis Okamoto, 2012
- Epigonus constanciae (Giglioli, 1880)
- Epigonus crassicaudus F. de Buen, 1959
- Epigonus ctenolepis Mochizuki & Shirakihara, 1983
- Epigonus denticulatus Dieuzeide, 1950 – pencil cardinal
- Epigonus devaneyi Gon, 1985
- Epigonus elegans Parin & Abramov, 1986
- Epigonus elongatus Parin & Abramov, 1986
- Epigonus exodon Okamoto] & Motomura, 2012
- Epigonus fragilis (D. S. Jordan & E. K. Jordan, 1922)
- Epigonus glossodontus Gon, 1985
- Epigonus heracleus Parin & Abramov, 1986
- Epigonus lenimen (Whitley, 1935) – big-eyed cardinalfish
- Epigonus lifouensis Okamoto & Motomura, 2013[2] – Loyalty deepwater cardinalfish
- Epigonus machaera Okamoto, 2012
- Epigonus macrops (A. B. Brauer, 1906) – luminous deepsea cardinalfish
- Epigonus marimonticolus Parin & Abramov, 1986
- Epigonus marisrubri Krupp, Zajonz & Khalaf, 2009
- Epigonus mayeri Okamoto, 2011 – Angolan deepwater cardinalfish
- Epigonus merleni McCosker & Long, 1997
- Epigonus notacanthus Parin & Abramov, 1986
- Epigonus occidentalis Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 – western deepsea cardinalfish
- Epigonus oligolepis G. F. Mayer, 1974
- Epigonus pandionis (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1881) – bigeye
- Epigonus parini Abramov, 1987
- Epigonus pectinifer G. F. Mayer, 1974
- Epigonus robustus (Barnard, 1927) – robust cardinalfish
- Epigonus telescopus (A. Risso, 1810) – black cardinalfish
- Epigonus thai Prokofiev & Bussarawit, 2012
- Epigonus tuberculatus Okamoto & Motomura, 2013[2] – Keeling deepwater cardinalfish
- Epigonus waltersensis Parin & Abramov, 1986
References
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- ↑ Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Epigonus. FishBase. 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Okamoto, M. & Motomura, H. (2013). Two new species of deepwater cardinalfish from the Indo-Pacific, with a definition of the Epigonus pandionis group (Perciformes: Epigonidae). Ichthyological Research 60 301-11.