Banjos (fish)
Banjos is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, the only genus in the monotypic family Banjosidae, part of the perciform superfamily Percoidea[3] They are native to the western Indian and the Atlantic coasts of Africa.[4] and is made up of the three species of banjofishes.[4]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Percoidei |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Banjosidae D.S. Jordan and W.F. Thompson, 1912[1] |
| Genus: | Banjos Bleeker, 1876[2] |
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Species
Banjos has three species currently recognised species:[4][5]
- Banjos aculeatus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Eastern Australian banjofish)
- Banjos banjos (John Richardson, 1846) (Banjofish)
- Banjos peregrinus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Timor Sea banjofish)
References
- Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
- Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Banjos". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- 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.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Banjos in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- 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. Abstract
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