Bonnetmouth
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The Bonnetmouths are a very small family of fishes in the order Perciformes
with only two known species in two genera, the bonnetmouth and the boga.
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...
with only two known species in two genera, the bonnetmouth and the boga.
Species
- Genus Emmelichthyops
- Bonnetmouth, Emmelichthyops atlanticusEmmelichthyops atlanticusThe Bonnetmouth, Emmelichthyops atlanticus, is an ocean-going species of fish in the Bonnetmouth family, or Inermiidae. It is also known as the Bogita and the Slender bonnetmouth in the Bahamas and the John moriggle in Jamaica...
Schultz, 1945.
- Bonnetmouth, Emmelichthyops atlanticus
- Genus Inermia
- Boga, Inermia vittata PoeyFelipe Poey-Biography:Poey was born in Havana, the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid. He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the...
, 1860.
- Boga, Inermia vittata Poey