Callionymus

Callionymus
Temporal range: Middle Miocene–present
Callionymus bairdi
Callionymus lyra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Callionymidae
Genus: Callionymus
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Callionymus lyra
Synonyms
  • Paradiplogrammus Nakabo, 1982
  • Spinicapitichthys Fricke, 1980

Callionymus is a genus of dragonets found mostly in the Indian and Pacific oceans with a few species occurring in the Atlantic Ocean.

Species

There are currently 110 recognized species in this genus:

† means extinct

Fossil species

The following fossil species are also known, although almost all aside from C. macrocephalus are only known from isolated otoliths:

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Callionymus". FishBase. August 2019 version.
  2. 1 2 Fricke, R. (2016): Callionymus alisae, a new species of dragonet from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Callionymidae). FishTaxa, 1 (1): 55-66.
  3. ↑ Fricke, R. (2014): Callionymus madangensis, a new species of dragonet from Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Callionymidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 13: 1-15.
  4. ↑ Fricke, R., Jawad, L.A. & Al-Mamry, J.M. (2014): Callionymus omanensis, a new species of dragonet from Oman, north-western Indian Ocean (Teleostei: Callionymidae). Journal of Fish Biology, 85 (5): 1303–1319.
  5. ↑ Fricke, R. (2016): Callionymus petersi, a new species of dragonet from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Callionymidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 21: 38–57.
  6. ↑ Fricke, R. & Golani, D. (2013): Callionymus profundus n. sp., a new species of dragonet from the Gulf of Aqaba (Gulf of Eilat), Red Sea (Teleostei: Callionymidae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 6: 277–285.
  7. ↑ Sytchevskaya, E. K.; Prokofiev, A. M. (2007-11-01). "A dragonet (Perciformes: Callionymidae) from the Middle Miocene of southern Russia". Journal of Ichthyology. 47 (9): 708–714. doi:10.1134/S0032945207090044. ISSN 1555-6425.
  8. ↑ Carnevale, Giorgio; Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Landini, Walter; Sorbini, Chiara (2006). "VOLHYNIAN (EARLY SARMATIAN SENSU LATO) FISHES FROM TSUREVSKY, NORTH CAUCASUS, RUSSIA". Journal of Paleontology. 80 (4): 684–699. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2006)80[684:VESSLF]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3360.
  9. ↑ Bratishko, Andriy; Schwarzhans, Werner; Reichenbacher, Bettina; Vernyhorova, Yuliia; Ćorić, Stjepan (2015-12-01). "Fish otoliths from the Konkian (Miocene, early Serravallian) of Mangyshlak (Kazakhstan): testimony to an early endemic evolution in the Eastern Paratethys". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 89 (4): 839–889. doi:10.1007/s12542-015-0274-4. ISSN 1867-6812.
  10. ↑ Carolin, Nora; Bajpai, Sunil; Maurya, Abhayanand Singh; Schwarzhans, Werner (2022). "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India". PalZ. 97: 43–80. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9.