Bathyclupeidae

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Bathyclupeidae
Temporal range: 55–0 Ma Early Eocene to Present[1]
Neobathyclupea argentea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Superfamily: Percoidea
Family: Bathyclupeidae
T. N. Gill, 1896[2]
Genera

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Bathyclupeidae is a family of Perciformes, called deep sea herrings.[3] They are marine fishes found in tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. They grow up to about 20 cm long.

Timeline[edit]

QuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.Plio.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleoceneQuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.Plio.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleocene

Genera[edit]

The following two genera, containing 10 species, are classified within the family Bathyclupeidae,[4] although Fishbase only recognises Bathyclupeus:[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Sepkoski, J.J.Jr (2002). "A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23.
  2. ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
  3. ^ a b Prokofiev, A.M. (2014). "Taxonomy and Distribution of Deepsea Herring (Bathyclupeidae) in Oceans". Journal of Ichthyology. 54 (8): 493–500. doi:10.1134/S0032945214050063.
  4. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Bathyclupeidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  5. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Bathycluepidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  6. ^ Artem M. Prokofiev; Ofer Gon & Peter N. Psomadakis (2016). "A new species of Neobathyclupea from the northern Indian Ocean with comments on N. malayana (Teleostei, Perciformes, Bathyclupeidae)". Zootaxa. 5208 (5). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4208.5.5. Abstract