Family Bembridae - Deepwater flatheads
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Actinopterygii |
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Genera : 4 | Species : 9 Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes |
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Environment |
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Fresh : No |
Brackish : No |
Marine : Yes |
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Marine |
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none |
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Remark |
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Distribution: Indo-Pacifc from South Africa to Gulf of Aden, Japan, Hawaii and the Nasca Ridge off Peru. Body elongated and cylindrical, covered with ctenoid scales; head moderately to strongly depressed; large mouth with fine teeth on jaws, vomer and palatines. First dorsal fin with 6-12 spines and second dorsal fin with 8-12 soft rays; pectoral fin with 21-27 rays; pelvics with one spine and five soft rays, below pectoral base. Vertebrae 26-27. Lateral line complete. No swimbladder. Mostly small, red, benthic fishes occurring in deeper water (150-650 m) than other flatheads. |
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Etymology |
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Greek, bembras, -ados = a kind of anchovy ( Ref. 45335). |
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Osteichthyes | Actinopterygii | Actinopteri | Neopterygii | Teleostei | Osteoglossocephalai | Clupeocephala | Euteleosteomorpha | Neoteleostei | Eurypterygia | Ctenosquamata | Acanthomorphata | Euacanthomorphacea | Percomorphaceae | Percomorpharia | Perciformes | Bembroidei | Bembridae |
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The list below must not be used as an authority reference synonymy list like those found in scientific published revisions, which must be the source to be used and cited eventually when they exist.
Rather, it reflects the current content of FishBase, and the progress with respect to synchronization with the Catalog of Fishes. However, we think it can be useful for users to assess the quality of information in FishBase, to start new work on the family, or to cross-check with other lists.
But we appreciate to be cited in publications when this list has been of any working value. In particular, for published scientific, we suggest then to cite it in the Material and Method section as a useful tool to conduct the research, but again, not as a taxonomic or nomenclatural authority reference.
Unless it is explicitly precised, the list is not complete, please search all original names published for the family in the Catalog of Fishes (genera, species), including those with uncertain or unknown status, that are not included in FishBase when they are not attached to a valid species.
This list uses some data from Catalog of Fishes (not shown but used to sort names).
In the column CofF, the digit indicates the status of synchronization with CofF: 0: Not checked; 1: Same status; 2: Different status; 3: Other combination; 4: Synonym in CofF; 5: Species/Subspecies issue; 6: Synonym of another species in CofF; 7: Not in CofF; 8: Should not be in CofF. The CofF version currently used is the one published on 23-07-2014 (Ref. 97102).
The list ordered as follows:
Please send comments and corrections if you detect errors or missing names.
Scientifc name | Status | Senior/Junior synonym | Combination | CofF |
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Bembras japonica Cuvier, 1829 | accepted | senior | original | |
! Bembras japonicus Cuvier, 1829 | synonym | senior | original | 1 |
Bembras adenensis Imamura & Knapp, 1997 | accepted | senior | original | 2 |
Bembras japonicus (non Cuvier, 1829) | misapplied | misapplied | original | |
Bembras longipinnis Imamura & Knapp, 1998 | accepted | senior | original | 2 |
Bembras macrolepis Imamura, 1998 | accepted | senior | original | 2 |
Bembras megacephala Imamura & Knapp, 1998 | accepted | senior | original | 2 |
Bembras japonicus (non Cuvier, 1829) | misapplied | misapplied | original | |
Bembradium roseum Gilbert, 1905 | accepted | senior | original | 2 |
Bembradium furici Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979 | accepted | senior | original | 2 |
Bambradon laevis (Nyström, 1887) | accepted | senior | new | |
Bembras laevis Nyström, 1887 | synonym | senior | original | 2 |
Brachybembras aschemeieri Fowler, 1938 | accepted | senior | original | 2 |