Caproidae
Sign in to saveAlso known as boarfish
Caproidae, or boarfishes, are a small family of marine fishes with a single extant species, the boarfish (Capros aper), native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, as well as a few other extinct species and genera.
Species
boarfishes
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyCaproidae
菱鲷科（学名：Caproidae）又名羊鲂科，为菱鲷目（Caproiformes）的唯一一科，属輻鰭魚綱真鱸形系。
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 97
- Family
- Caproidae
- Collections
- TCWC, CAS, USNM, CSIRO
- Recorded in
- Philippines, United States, China, Kenya, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Acanthuriformes
- Image
- Adult boarfish (Antigonia capros).jpg
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Caproidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Caproidae
- Code of nomenclature
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- topic's main category
- Category:Caproidae
- taxon common name
- villsvinfiskfamilien
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Taxonomy
- Genera
- Characteristics
- See also
- References
Caproidae, or boarfishes, are a small family of marine fishes with a single extant species, the boarfish (Capros aper), native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, as well as a few other extinct species and genera.
==Etymology == Caproidae comes from the genus name Capros which is derived from the Greek word kapros meanin "boar". This is a reference to the rather cylindrical snout, ending in a small mouth with a protrusible upper lip which Bonaparte thought had some resemblance to snout of a pig or boar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caproidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.