Banjos (fish)
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| Banjos banjos | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Percoidei |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Banjosidae D.S. Jordan and W.F. Thompson, 1912[2] |
| Genus: | Banjos Bleeker, 1876[1] |
| Type species | |
| Anoplus banjos Richardson, 1846
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Banjos is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, the only genus in the monotypic family Banjosidae, which is part of the perciform superfamily Percoidea.[4] They are native to the western Indian and the Atlantic coasts of Africa,[5] and is made up of the three species of banjofishes.[5]
Species
Banjos have three currently recognised species:[5][3]
- Banjos aculeatus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Eastern Australian banjofish)
- Banjos banjos (John Richardson, 1846) (Banjofish)
- Banjos peregrinus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Timor Sea banjofish)
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Banjos". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ a b Mizuki Matsunuma & Hiroyuki Motomura (2017). "Review of the genus Banjos (Perciformes: Banjosidae) with descriptions of two new species and a new subspecies". Ichthyological Research. 64 (3): 265–294. doi:10.1007/s10228-016-0569-9. S2CID 5630490. Abstract
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 444. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
- ^ a b c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Banjos". FishBase. December 2019 version.