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Pristigenys
Sign in to savePristigenys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, P. substriata, which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyPriacanthidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 24
- Family
- Priacanthidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, UWFC, MNHN, CAS, OS, ANSP
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom, Philippines, Vanuatu, Iran, United States, China, Japan, Brazil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Priacanthidae
- Image
- Short bigeye (Pristigenys alta).jpg
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- Commons category
- Pristigenys
- start time
- 49000000-0
- taxon name
- Pristigenys
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Pristigenys
- end time
- 48000000-0
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Pristigenys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, P. substriata, which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.
The extant species have been classified in the genus Pseudopriacanthus which both Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes treat as a synonym of Pristigenys, but recent work has argued that they should be separated based on numerous differences in the cranial region and the fins.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pristigenys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.