Orthopristis

Orthopristis
Temporal range: Middle Eocene–present
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Haemulidae
Subfamily: Haemulinae
Genus: Orthopristis
Girard, 1858
Type species
Orthopristis duplex
Girard, 1858
Synonyms
  • Evapristis D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896
  • Lepidopristis Fowler, 1944
  • Lepthaemulon Fowler & B. A. Bean, 1923
  • Pristocantharus T. N. Gill, 1862
  • †Allomorone Frizzell and Dante, 1965

Orthopristis is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, grunts belonging to family Haemulidae. They are found in the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:

The extinct species O. burlesonis (formerly Allomorone burlesonis Frizzell and Dante, 1965) is known from otoliths from the Middle Eocene of the southern United States. †Orthopristis proronchus Arambourg, 1927 is known from the latest Miocene (Messinian) of Algeria.

References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Orthopristis". FishBase. August 2013 version.
  2. ↑ "CAS - Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes". researcharchive.calacademy.org. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  3. ↑ "Roncador-Sul-Americano (Orthopristis scapularis)". BioDiversity4All (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  4. ↑ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  5. ↑ Lin, Chien-Hsiang; Nolf, Dirk (2022-04-20). "Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA". European Journal of Taxonomy (814): 1–122. Bibcode:2022EJTax.814....1L. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.814.1745. ISSN 2118-9773.
  6. ↑ Gaudant, Jean (2008). "Paléobiodiversité et paléoenvironnements: l'exemple des gisements de poissons téléostéens du Messinien préévaporitique d'Oran et du bassin du Chélif (Algérie)". Geodiversitas. 30 (1): 141–163.