Oceanic basslets
| Oceanic basslets | |
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| Howella brodiei | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Howellidae Ogilby, 1899[1] |
| Genera[2] | |
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The oceanic basslets are ray-finned fish that belong to the small family Howellidae within the superfamily Percoidea of the suborder Percoidei part of the order Perciformes. The family includes about 9 species. They are mostly deep-water species, some of which move to shallower waters at night. Various species are found in the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, including the Coral Sea, and Atlantic Ocean, including the Caribbean Sea.[3]
Genera
The following three genera are classified as part of the Howellidae:[2][4]
- Bathysphyraenops Parr, 1933
- Howella Ogilby, 1899
- Pseudohowella Fedoryako, 1976
References
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Howellidae". FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ^ "Basslets" at AnimalSpot web site Retrieved February 4, 2015.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Howellidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
Further reading
- Prokofiev, A. M. (2007). The osteology of Bathysphyraenops symplex and the diagnosis of the Howellidae (Perciformes: Percoidei) family. Journal of Ichthyology 47(8), 566–578.
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