Zanclidae

Zanclidae

Zanclidae

Family of fishes

Zanclidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the suborder Acanthuroidei within the order Acanthuriformes. It contains one extant species, the Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus) and an extinct species.[2]

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Genera and species

Zanclidae has the following taxa classified within it:[3][4]

(† means extinct)

References

  1. [1]
    Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
  2. [2]
    J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 497–502. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2023). "Zanclidae" in FishBase. February 2023 version.
  4. [4]
    "Family Zanclidae (ray-finned fish)". Fossilworks. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
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