Banjos_(fish)

<i>Banjos</i> (fish)

Banjos (fish)

Genus of fishes

Banjos is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, the only genus in the monotypic family Banjosidae, which is part of the perciform superfamily Percoidea.[4] They are native to the western Indian and the Atlantic coasts of Africa,[5] and is made up of the three species of banjofishes.[5]

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Species

Banjos have three currently recognised species:[5][3]

  • Banjos aculeatus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Eastern Australian banjofish)
  • Banjos banjos (John Richardson, 1846) (Banjofish)
  • Banjos peregrinus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Timor Sea banjofish)

References

  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Banjos". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  3. [3]
    Mizuki Matsunuma & Hiroyuki Motomura (2017). "Review of the genus Banjos (Perciformes: Banjosidae) with descriptions of two new species and a new subspecies". Ichthyological Research. 64 (3): 265–294. doi:10.1007/s10228-016-0569-9. S2CID 5630490. Abstract
  4. [4]
    J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 444. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  5. [5]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Banjos in FishBase. December 2019 version.
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