Latridae
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| Trumpeters | |
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| Telescope fish Mendosoma lineatum |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Latridae |
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Latridopsis |
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Trumpeters are a family of perciform fishes, Latridae. They are found in southern waters off Australia, New Zealand, and Chile, where they are fished commercially and for sport. They are closely related to Cheilodactylidae, and the majority of the species that traditionally are placed in the latter family may actually belong in Latridae.[1][2]
[edit] Species
There are five species in three genera.
- Genus Latridopsis
- Blue moki, Latridopsis ciliaris (Forster, 1801).
- Bastard trumpeter, Latridopsis forsteri (Castelnau, 1872).
- Genus Latris
- Latris hecateia Richardson, 1839.
- Striped trumpeter, Latris lineata (Forster, 1801).
- Genus Mendosoma
- Telescope fish, Mendosoma lineatum (Forster, 1801).
[edit] References
- ^ Burridgea and Smolenski (2004). Molecular phylogeny of the Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Perciformes: Cirrhitoidea) with notes on taxonomy and biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 118–127
- ^ Randall (2007). Reef and Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands. ISBN 1-929054-03-3
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Latridae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
