Pristigenys

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Pristigenys

Genus of fishes


Pristigenys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, P. substriata, which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.[4]

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The extant species have been classified in the genus Pseudopriacanthus which both Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes treat as a synonym of Pristigenys,[3] but recent work has argued that they should be separated based on numerous differences in the cranial region and the fins.[4][5]

Species

The following species are classified in the genus Pristigenys:[6][4]


References

  1. Agassiz, L. (1835). "Kritische Revision der in der Ittiolitologia Veronese abgebildeten fossilen Fische". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde. 1835: 299.
  2. de Blainville, H. D. (1818). "Des Ichthyolites du Monte Bolca, ou Vestena Nuova dans le Veronais". Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. Vol. 18. Paris: Deterville. p. 352. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.20211.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Priacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. Carnevale, Giorgio; Johnson, G. David; Marramà, Giuseppe; Bannikov, Alexandre F. (2017). "A reappraisal of the Eocene priacanthid fish Pristigenys substriata (Blainville, 1818) from Monte Bolca, Italy". Journal of Paleontology. 91 (3): 554–565. Bibcode:2017JPal...91..554C. doi:10.1017/jpa.2017.19.
  5. Starnes, W.C., 1988. "Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae." Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(2):117-203.
  6. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Pristigenys in FishBase. December 2019 version.

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