Eulophiidae

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Eulophiidae
Eulophias tanneri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Suborder: Zoarcoidei
Family: Eulophiidae
H. M. Smith, 1902
Genera

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Synonyms[1]
  • Eulophiasinae Smith, 1902

Eulophiidae, the spinous eelpouts, is a small

suborder Zoarcoidei of the order Scorpaeniformes
. They are found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Taxonomy

Eulophiidae was first proposed as a family in 2013 by the Korean

Blennidae,[6] Jordan and Snyder changed the name to Eulophinae in 1902.[7] The genera Eulophias and Azygopterus were subsequently placed in the subfamily Neozarchinae in the tribe Eulophini prior to Kwun and Kim's analysis.[8]

The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this family within the suborder Zoarcoidei, within the order Scorpaeniformes.

monophyletic.[9]

Genera

Eulophiidae contains the following 3 genera, and only 4 or 5 species are classified as belonging to the family:[4][5]

Etymology

The family name is based on the name Smith gave to Eulophias tanneri in 1902 and is a combination of eu, meaning “well”, and lophias, which means “bristley backed”, a reference to the long, spiny dorsal fin of that species.[10]

Characteritsics

Eulophiidae fishes are characterised by having an almost completely spiny dorsal fin,

pyloric caeca, they have between 26 and 45 vertebrae in front of the tail and the parietals do not meet at the midline of the skull.[8]

Distribution

Eulophidae fishes are found in the North Western Pacific Ocean off Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East.[8]

References

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    doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.025
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  2. doi:10.1134/S1022795414030065
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    ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original
    on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  4. ^ a b c Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2022). "Eulophiidae" in FishBase. February 2022 version.
  5. ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Eulophiidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  6. ^ Smith, H. M. (1902). "Description of a new species of blenny from Japan". Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission. 21: 93–94.
  7. ^ David Starr Jordan and John Otterbein Snyder (1902). "A review of the blennoid fishes of Japan". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 25 (1293): 441–504.
  8. ^ a b c Mecklenburg, C. W. and B. A. Sheiko (2004). "Family Stichaeidae Gill 1864 — pricklebacks" (PDF). California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes. 35.
  9. PMID 28683774
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  10. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (4 July 2021). "Order Perciformes (Part 11): Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Zoarcales: Families: Anarhichadidae, Neozoarcidae, Eulophias, Stichaeidae, Lumpenidae, Ophistocentridae, Pholidae, Ptilichthyidae, Zaproridae, Cryptacanthodidae, Cebidichthyidae, Scytalinidae and Bathymasteridae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
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