Chanidae

Chanidae
Temporal range: Berriasian–present
Chanos chanos
110 million year old fossil †Dastilbe from Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Gonorynchiformes
Family: Chanidae
Günther, 1868
Type genus
Chanos
Lacepède, 1803
Subfamilies
  • †Rubiesichthyinae
  • Chaninae

Chanidae is a family of fishes which has a number of fossil genera and one monotypic extant genus which contains the milkfish (Chanos chanos).

Taxonomy

The family Chanidae is subdivided into two subfamilies, Rubiesichthyinae and Chaninae.[page needed]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Chanidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  3. ↑ R. Froese; D. Pauly, eds. (2017). "Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775) Milkfish". Fishbase. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Nelson, Joseph S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
  5. ↑ Taverne, Louis; Putter, Thierry DE; Mees, Florias; Smith, Thierry (2019-01-01). "Cabindachanos dartevellei gen. and sp. nov., a new chanid fish (Ostariophysi, Gonorynchiformes) from the marine Paleocene of Cabinda (Central Africa)". Geologica Belgica. 22 (1–2): 1–6. Bibcode:2019GeolB..22....1T. doi:10.20341/gb.2018.011. ISSN 1374-8505.
  6. ↑ Fara, Emmanuel; Gayet, Mireille; Taverne, Louis (2010). "The Fossil Record of Gonorynchiformes". In Grande, Terry; Poyato-Ariza, Francisco José; Diogo, Rui (eds.). Gonorynchiformes and Ostariophysan Relationships: A Comprehensive Review (PDF). CRC Press. pp. 173–226. doi:10.1201/b10194-6. ISBN 978-0-429-06156-1.
  7. ↑ Poyato-Ariza, Francisco José; Grande, Terry; Diogo, Rui (2010). "Gonorynchiform Interrelationships: Historic Overview, Analysis, and Revised Systematics of the Group". In Grande, Terry; Poyato-Ariza, Francisco José; Diogo, Rui (eds.). Gonorynchiformes and Ostariophysan Relationships: A Comprehensive Review (PDF). CRC Press. pp. 227–337. doi:10.1201/b10194-7. ISBN 978-0-429-06156-1.
  8. ↑ Taverne, Louis; Capasso, Luigi (2017). "Osteology and relationships of Caeus ("Chanos") leopoldi (Teleostei, Gonorynchiformes, Chanidae) from the marine Albian (Early Cretaceous) of Pietraroja (Campania, southern Italy)" (PDF). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Geologia Paleontologia Preistoria. 41: 3–20. S2CID 52025491. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  9. ↑ Ribeiro, Alexandre C.; Bockmann, Flávio A.; Poyato-Ariza, Francisco J. (2022-07-01). "Francischanos, a replacement genus for Dastilbe moraesi Silva-Santos, 1955, from the Quiricó Formation, Lower Cretaceous of the Sanfranciscana basin, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Gonorynchiformes)". Cretaceous Research. 135 105212. Bibcode:2022CrRes.13505212R. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105212. ISSN 0195-6671.
  10. ↑ Guadarrama, Alberto; Cantalice, Kleyton M. (2025). "Two contemporaneous morphs of fossil Chanos Lacepède, 1803 (Gonorynchiformes, Chanidae) from Paleocene (Danian) outcrops near Palenque (Mexico) revealed by geometric morphometrics indicate conservatism in milkfishes after the K/Pg boundary". PLOS ONE. 20 (3) e0313912. Bibcode:2025PLoSO..2013912G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0313912. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 11882075. PMID 40043070.
  11. ↑ Murray, Alison M.; Brinkman, Donald B.; Friedman, Matt; Krause, David W. (2023-10-17). "A large, freshwater chanid fish (Ostariophysi: Gonorynchiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 43 (2) e2255630. Bibcode:2023JVPal..43E5630M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2023.2255630. ISSN 0272-4634.