Aplocheilidae
| Aplocheilidae | |
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| Aplocheilus lineatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Suborder: | Aplocheiloidei |
| Family: | Aplocheilidae Bleeker, 1859 |
Aplocheilidae, the Asian killifishes or Asian rivulines, is a
Cynolebiinae (formerly called Rivulidae) for the species from the Americas; and Nothobranchiinae for the species from the African mainland.[2] However, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World still classifies these as separate families,[3] and at least one 2008 study suggests that even the narrow Aplocheilidae may not be monophyletic, with Aplocheilus itself possibly being basal to all other Cyprinodontiforms and thus only distantly related to the younger Pachypanchax.[4]
Genera
There are two genera which are currently placed in the family Aplocheilidae:[3][5]
- Aplocheilus McClelland, 1838
- Pachypanchax Myers, 1933
References
- ^ van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. (2014): Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa, 3882 (2): 1–230.
- ^ Costa, W.J.E.M. (2016): Comparative morphology and classification of South American cynopoeciline killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheilidae), with notes on family-group names used for aplocheiloids. Vertebrate Zoology, 66 (2): 125-140.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the originalon 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
- ^ Hertwig, S. T., 2008 - Zoologica Scripta 37(2): 141-174 Phylogeny of the Cyprinodontiformes (Teleostei, Atherinomorpha): the contribution of cranial soft tissue characters.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Aplocheilidae" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
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