Caproidae

Boarfishes Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Deepbody boarfish, Antigonia capros
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Zeiformes
Family:	Caproidae
Genera
Antigonia Capros See text for species.

Boarfishes are a small family, Caproidae, of marine fishes comprising two genera and twelve species. They are usually placed in the order Zeiformes with the dories, but this placement is uncertain, since boarfishes have many perciform characters, for instance in the caudal skeleton. Boarfishes are native to the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans, where mainly found at depths below 50 metres (160 ft).

Like other zeiform fishes, boarfishes have deep and thin bodies. Boarfishes are small, with only a few species known to reach a maximum total length of 30 centimetres (12 in). Coloration is red, pink and silvery.

The earliest identified caproid fossils date to the middle Oligocene epoch of the middle Tertiary period, or roughly 20 to 30 million years ago.

Species

• Genus Antigonia
  • Antigonia aurorosea Parin & Borodulina, 1986.
  • Deepbody boarfish, Antigonia capros Lowe, 1843.
  • Shortspine boarfish, Antigonia combatia Berry & Rathjen, 1959.
  • Antigonia eos Gilbert, 1905.
  • Antigonia indica Parin & Borodulina, 1986.
  • Antigonia malayana Weber, 1913.
  • Rhomboidal boarfish, Antigonia rhomboidea McCulloch, 1915.
  • Indo-Pacific boarfish, Antigonia rubescens (Günther, 1860).
  • Antigonia rubicunda Ogilby, 1910.
  • Antigonia saya Parin & Borodulina, 1986.
  • Antigonia xenolepis Parin & Borodulina, 1986.
• Genus Capros
  • Capros aper (Linnaeus, 1758).

See also

• Some fish of the family Pentacerotidae family (order Perciformes) are also called boarfish.

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Caproidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.