Emmelichthyidae
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| Rover | |
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| Rubyfish, Plagiogeneion rubiginosum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Emmelichthyidae |
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Rovers are a family of small to medium sized marine fish. The family was once much larger, including a wide range of plankton-eating fish, but most of the genera were discovered to be unrelated examples of parallel evolution, and were moved to other families.[1]
[edit] Species
Family Emmelichthyidae
- Genus Emmelichthys
- Emmelichthys elongatus Kotlyar, 1982
- Emmelichthys karnellai Heemstra & Randall, 1977
- Emmelichthys nitidus cyanescens (Guichenot, 1848)
- Redbait or southern rover, Emmelichthys nitidus nitidus Richardson, 1845
- Red rover (fish), Emmelichthys ruber (Trunov, 1976)
- Emmelichthys struhsakeri Heemstra & Randall, 1977
- Genus Erythrocles
- Erythrocles acarina Kotthaus, 1974
- Erythrocles microceps Miyahara & Okamura, 1998
- Atlantic rubyfish, Erythrocles monodi Poll & Cadenat, 1954
- Japanese rubyfish, Erythrocles schlegelii (Richardson, 1846)
- Erythrocles scintillans (Jordan & Thompson, 1912)
- Erythrocles taeniatus Randall & Rivaton, 1992
- Genus Plagiogeneion
- Plagiogeneion fiolenti Parin, 1991
- Plagiogeneion geminatum Parin, 1991
- Plagiogeneion macrolepis McCulloch, 1914
- Rubyfish, Plagiogeneion rubiginosum (Hutton, 1875)
- Plagiogeneion unispina Parin, 1991
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Johnson, G.D. & Gill, A.C. (1998). Paxton, J.R. & Eschmeyer, W.N.. ed. Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 184. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Emmelichthyidae" in FishBase. March 2006 version.
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