Banjos (fish)

Banjos
Banjos banjos
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Clade:	Eupercaria
Order:	Acropomatiformes
Family:	Banjosidae D.S. Jordan and W.F. Thompson, 1912 [1]
Genus:	Banjos Bleeker, 1876 [2]
Type species
Anoplus banjos Richardson, 1846
Species
see text
Synonyms [3]
AnoplusTemminck & Schlegel, 1843

Banjos is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, the only genus in the monotypic family Banjosidae, which is part of the order Acropomatiformes. ^[4] They are native to the western Indian and the Atlantic coasts of Africa, ^[5] and is made up of the three species of banjofishes. ^[5]

Species

Banjos have three currently recognised species: ^{[5] [3]}

• Banjos aculeatus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Eastern Australian banjofish)
• Banjos banjos (John Richardson, 1846) (Banjofish)
• Banjos peregrinus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Timor Sea banjofish)

References

1. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 . PMID   25543675.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Banjos". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 18 May 2020.
3. 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. doi:10.1007/s10228-016-0569-9. S2CID   5630490. Abstract
4. "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification - California Academy of Sciences". www.calacademy.org. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
5. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Banjos". FishBase . December 2019 version.