Whitenose pigfish
| Whitenose pigfish | |
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| Family: | Perryenidae |
| Genus: | Perryena Whitley, 1940
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| Species: | P. leucometopon
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| Perryena leucometopon (Waite, 1922)
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Perryena leucometopon, the Whitenose pigfish, is a scorpaeniform fish endemic to the Pacific Ocean around Australia where it is found on coral reefs. This species grows to a length of 16 centimetres (6.3 in) TL.[1] This species is the only known member of its genus and in 2013 was split from the family Congiopodidae into its own family.[2]
A recent study placed the waspfishes into an expanded stonefish clade (Synanceiidae) because all of these fish have a lachrymal saber that can project a switch-blade-like mechanism out from underneath their eye [3][4].
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Perryena leucometopon". FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ^ Honma, Y., Imamura, H. & Kawai, T. (2013): Anatomical description of the genus Perryena, and proposal to erect a new family for it based on its phylogenetic relationships with related taxa (Scorpaeniformes). Ichthyological Research, DOI 10-1007/s10228-012-0321-z
- ^ Smith, W. Leo; Smith, Elizabeth; Richardson, Clara (February 2018). "Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Flatheads, Scorpionfishes, Sea Robins, and Stonefishes (Percomorpha: Scorpaeniformes) and the Evolution of the Lachrymal Saber". Copeia. 106 (1): 94–119. doi:10.1643/CG-17-669.
- ^ Willingham, AJ (April 13, 2018). "Stonefish are already scary, and now scientists have found they have switchblades in their heads". CNN.
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