Capros

Capros, the boarfish or Zulu fish, is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Caproidae. Its only known species is Capros aper. The boarfish is found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean.

==Taxonomy== Capros aper was first formally described as Zeus aper by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae published in 1758. Linnaeus gave the type localities as Rome and Genoa in Italy. In 1802 Bernard Germain de Lacépède classified Zeus aper into the monotypic genus Capros. Some authorities treat Capros as the only genus in the family Caproidae. However, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World includes Antigonia in the Caproidae, albeit placing this taxon in the monotypic subfamily Caproinae and Antigonia in the similarly monotypic subfamily Antigoniinae. The Caproidae is the only family in the order Caproiformess.