Maurolicus
| Pearlsides Temporal range: Miocene to Present
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| Mueller's pearlside, Maurolicus muelleri | |
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| Genus: | Maurolicus Cocco, 1838
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| 15 species | |
Maurolicus is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the marine hatchetfish family Sternoptychidae. They are commonly known as pearlsides, but the brilliant pearlside is the related Argyripnus iridescens. Occasionally, "bristle-mouth fishes" is used as a common name, but that usually refers to the genus Argyripnus or the family Gonostomatidae.
Species
There are currently 15 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Maurolicus amethystinopunctatus Cocco, 1838
- Maurolicus australis Hector, 1875 (pennant pearlside)
- Maurolicus breviculus Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993
- Maurolicus imperatorius Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993 (Emperor seamount lightfish)
- Maurolicus inventionis Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993
- Maurolicus japonicus Ishikawa, 1915 (North Pacific lightfish)
- Maurolicus javanicus Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993 (Javan pearlside)
- Maurolicus kornilovorum Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993
- Maurolicus mucronatus Klunzinger, 1871
- Maurolicus muelleri (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) (Silvery lightfish, Mueller's pearlside, Mueller's bristle-mouth fish)
- Maurolicus parvipinnis Vaillant, 1888
- Maurolicus rudjakovi Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993
- Maurolicus stehmanni Parin & Kobyliansky, 1996
- Maurolicus walvisensis Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993
- Maurolicus weitzmani Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993 (Atlantic pearlside, Weitzman's pearlside)
Fossils of pearlsides are known from the Miocene.[2]
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Maurolicus". FishBase. February 2012 version.
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002): [Maurolicus]. In: A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. HTML database excerpt
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