Howellidae

Oceanic basslets

Oceanic basslets

Family of fishes

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]

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Genera

The following three genera are classified as part of the Howellidae:[2][4]

The potential fossil genus Praegaleagra David, 1946 is known from isolated scales from the Late Eocene of California.[5]

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]
    Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Howellidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  3. [3]
    "Basslets" at AnimalSpot web site Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  4. [4]
    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.
  5. [5]
    David, Lorre R. (1946). "Some Typical Upper Eogene Fish Scales from California". Contributions to Paleontology. IV.

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