Pristolepis

Pristolepis is a genus of fish in the family Pristolepididae sometimes classified in the order Anabantiformes native to freshwater habitats in Southeast Asia and India's Western Ghats. This genus is the only member of its family, a family which, with the families Nandidae and Polycentridae is a group of taxa which are sisters to the Anabantiformes and form part of an unnamed and unranked clade within the series Ovalentaria, closest to the Carangiformes.[2] These three families share the common name "leaffish" .[3]

Pristolepis
Pristolepis pentacantha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Superorder: Acanthopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Family: Pristolepididae
T. R. Roberts, 1989
Genus: Pristolepis
Jerdon, 1849
Type species
Pristolepis marginatus
Jerdon, 1849
Synonyms[1]

Species

There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus:[4]

  • Pristolepis fasciata (Bleeker, 1851) (Malayan leaffish)
  • Pristolepis grootii (Bleeker, 1852) (Indonesian leaffish)
  • Pristolepis malabarica (Günther, 1864)
  • Pristolepis marginata Jerdon, 1849 (Malabar leaffish)
  • Pristolepis pauciradiata Plamoottil & Win, 2017
  • Pristolepis pentacantha Plamoottil, 2014 (Wayanad leaffish)
  • Pristolepis procerus Plamoottil, 2017
  • Pristolepis rubripinnis Britz, Krishna Kumar & Baby, 2012[5]

References
  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Pristolepididae genera". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  2. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 395. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
  3. Collins, Rupert A.; Britz, Ralf; Rüber, Lukas (2015). "Phylogenetic systematics of leaffishes (Teleostei: Polycentridae, Nandidae)". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 53 (4): 259–272. doi:10.1111/jzs.12103.
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Pristolepis in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  5. Britz, Ralf; Kumar, Krishna; Baby, Fibin (2012). "Pristolepis rubripinnis, a new species of fish from southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Pristolepididae)". Zootaxa. 3345: 59. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3345.1.3.


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