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Antigonia (fish genus)
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Antigonia is a genus of zeiform
marine fish
belonging to the family Caproidae
, of which it composes eleven of the family's twelve species. Antigonia carry the common name boarfish
. These are deep-water species, generally found at depths below 50 metres (164 ft).
Like other zeiform fishes, boarfish have deep and thin bodies. Boarfish are small, with only a few species known to reach a maximum total length of 30 centimetres (11.8 in) and most reaching less than half that figure. The classification of the boarfishes in the Zeiformes order is uncertain, since they have many perciform
characters, for instance in the caudal skeleton. Coloration is usually red, pink and silvery.
Zeiformes
The Zeiformes are a small order of marine ray-finned fishes most notable for the dories, a group of common food fish. The order consists of about 40 species in seven families, mostly deep-sea types....
marine fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
belonging to the family Caproidae
Caproidae
Boarfishes are a small family, Caproidae, of marine fishes comprising two genera and twelve species. They are usually placed in the order Zeiformes with the dories, but this placement is uncertain, since boarfishes have many perciform characters, for instance in the caudal skeleton...
, of which it composes eleven of the family's twelve species. Antigonia carry the common name boarfish
Boarfish
Boarfish is the common name of two unrelated groups of fishes:*All fish of the family Caproidae are called boarfish.*Some fish of the family Pentacerotidae are called boarfish....
. These are deep-water species, generally found at depths below 50 metres (164 ft).
Like other zeiform fishes, boarfish have deep and thin bodies. Boarfish are small, with only a few species known to reach a maximum total length of 30 centimetres (11.8 in) and most reaching less than half that figure. The classification of the boarfishes in the Zeiformes order is uncertain, since they have many perciform
Perciformes
The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...
characters, for instance in the caudal skeleton. Coloration is usually red, pink and silvery.
Species
- Antigonia aurorosea Parin & Borodulina, 1986.
- Deepbody boarfish, Antigonia caprosAntigonia caprosAntigonia capros is a species of fish in the Caproidae family. It is the most widespread species in the family, found at depths of in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.-References:...
Lowe, 1843. - Shortspine boarfish, Antigonia combatia Berry & Rathjen, 1959.
- Antigonia eos Gilbert, 1905.
- Antigonia indica Parin & Borodulina, 1986.
- Antigonia malayana Weber, 1913.
- Rhomboidal boarfish, Antigonia rhomboidea McCulloch, 1915.
- Indo-Pacific boarfish, Antigonia rubescens (Günther, 1860).
- Antigonia rubicunda OgilbyWilliam OgilbyWilliam Ogilby was an Irish barrister and naturalist.Ogilby was honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1839 to 1846....
, 1910. - Antigonia saya Parin & Borodulina, 1986.
- Antigonia xenolepis Parin & Borodulina, 1986.