Drepane (fish)

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Drepane
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Spotted sicklefish (D. punctata)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Drepaneidae
T. N. Gill, 1872 [1]
Genus: Drepane
G. Cuvier, 1831
Type species
Chaetodon punctatus

Drepane is a genus of marine and brackish water ray-finned fishes, known commonly as the sicklefishes. [2] It is the only genus in the monotypic percomorph family Drepaneidae. [2] These fish occur in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, and in the eastern Atlantic near Africa.

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Taxonomy

Drepane was first proposed as a genus in 1831 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier. In 1917 David Starr Jordan designated Chaetodon punctatus, which had been described by Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae published in 1758 with its type locality given as Asia, as its type species. [3] [4] In 1872 Theodore Gill classified the genus within the family Drepaneidae [1] and it is the only genus classified within that family. [2] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the Drepaneidae within the order Moroniformes alongside the Moronidae and Ephippidae. [5] However, other authorities have found that the Moronidae is not closely related to the other two families and classify the Drepaneidae and the Ephippidae in the order Ephippiformes. [6] Other authorities classify all three families in the Moroniformes sensuFishes of the World in the Acanthuriformes. [7]

Etymology

Drepane means "sickle" and this refers to the sickle-shaped pectoral fins. [8]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: [9]

Characteristics

Drepane sicklefishes have 13 or 14 spines and between 19 and 22 soft rays in the dorsal fin and 3 spines and between and 17 and 19 soft rays in the anal fin. They have a highly protractile mouth, the pectoral fins are longer than the head and are shape like sickles. The distal part of the maxilla is exposed but the subocular shelf is absent. They have 24 vertebrae. [5] These fishes attain a maximum published total length of 50 cm (20 in). [9]

Distribution and habitat

Drepane sicklefishes are found in the eastern Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific. [9] They are inshore fishes found on sand or mud bottoms in reefs, estuaries and harbours. [10] [11]

See also

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Drepaneidae". FishBase . February 2023 version.
  3. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Drepaneidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  4. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Drepane". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  5. 1 2 J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 495–497. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  6. ↑ Ricardo Betancur-R; Edward O. Wiley; Gloria Arratia; et al. (2017). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (162). Bibcode:2017BMCEE..17..162B. doi: 10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3 . PMC   5501477 .
  7. ↑ Ron Fricke; William Eschmeyer; and Jon David Fong (2020). "GENERA/SPECIES BY FAMILY/SUBFAMILY IN Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes". Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes.
  8. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (10 February 2023). "Order ACANTHURIFORMES (part 1): Families LOBOTIDAE, POMACANTHIDAE, DREPANEIDAE and CHAETODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  9. 1 2 3 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Drepane". FishBase . February 2023 version.
  10. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Drepane punctata". FishBase . February 2023 version.
  11. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Drepane longimana". FishBase . February 2023 version.
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