Bathyclupeidae

Bathyclupeidae is a family of Perciformes, called deep sea herrings.[3] They are marine fishes found in tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. They grow up to about 20 cm long.

Bathyclupeidae
Temporal range: 55–0 Ma Early Eocene to Present[1]
Neobathyclupea argentea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Superfamily: Percoidea
Family: Bathyclupeidae
T. N. Gill, 1896[2]
Genera

see text

Timeline
QuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleoceneQuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleocene

Genera

The following two genera, containing 10 species, are classified within the family Bathyclupeidae,[4], although Fishbase only recognises Bathyclupeus:[5]

  • Bathyclupea Alcock, 1891
    • Bathyclupea hoskynii Alcock 1891
    • Bathyclupea nikparini Prokofiev 2014
    • Bathyclupea schroederi Dick, 1962
  • Neobathyclupea Prokofiev, 2014 [3]
    • Neobathyclupea argentea (Goode & Bean, 1896)
    • Neobathyclupea elongate (Trunov, 1975)
    • Neobathyclupea gracilis (Fowler, 1938)
    • Neobathyclupea japanotaiwana (Prokofiev, 2014)
    • Neobathyclupea malayana (Weber, 1913)
    • Neobathyclupea megaceps (Fowler 1938)
    • Neobathyclupea melanoptera Prokofiev, Gon & Psomadakis, 2016[6]

References
  1. Sepkoski, J.J.Jr (2002). "A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23.
  2. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
  3. Prokofiev, A.M. (2014). "Taxonomy and Distribution of Deepsea Herring (Bathyclupeidae) in Oceans". Journal of Ichthyology. 54 (8): 493–500. doi:10.1134/S0032945214050063.
  4. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Bathyclupeidae genera". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  5. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Bathycluepidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  6. Artem M. Prokofiev; Ofer Gon & Peter N. Psomadakis (2016). "A new species of Neobathyclupea from the northern Indian Ocean with comments on N. malayana (Teleostei, Perciformes, Bathyclupeidae)". Zootaxa. 5208 (5). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4208.5.5. Abstract


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