Polynemidae Rafinesque 1815
Creators
- 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
- 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
- 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
- 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
- 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
- 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554
Description
Family Polynemidae Rafinesque 1815 (Fig. 3M). Threadfins, Tassel-Fishes, Bobos; Bobos, Barbudos
Description: Body elongate, compressed; up to 46 cm in length; snout short, conical, translucent, overhangs mouth; mouth moderate, inferior, with bottom lip extending to front, but no top lip; tooth bands of top jaw touching in center; eyes large, longer than snout, with fatty cover, at front of head; preopercle serrated; scales rough; lateral line extends onto caudal fin; pectoral fin low on side, divided in two portions, the upper portion a normal fin, with 12–19 rays, the lower portion, under gills, with 3–16 long, free rays; two well separated dorsal fins, the first one with eight spines and the second one with one spine and 11–15 rays; pelvic fins well behind the pectoral fin base, under the first dorsal; anal fin base short, with three spines and 10–18 rays; caudal fin forked (Robertson & Allen 2015).
Distribution: Marine (often brackish), rarely freshwater; worldwide, all tropical and subtropical seas (Robertson & Allen 2015). One genus and three species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rafinesque
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Polynemidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polynemidae Rafinesque, 1815 sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: online information system. Version 2.0. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama´. Available from: https: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages (acccesed 18 February 2023)