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Xenisthmidae
Collared Wrigglers are perciform fishes in the family Xenisthmidae. They are native to the Indian and Pacific oceans, where they are mostly reef-dwelling.
Species
There are nine species in six genera:
- Genus Allomicrodesmus
- Dorothea's wriggler, Allomicrodesmus dorotheae Schultz, 1966[1]
- Genus Kraemericus
- Kraemericus smithi Menon & Talwar, 1972
- Genus Paraxenisthmus Gill & Hoese, 1993
- Paraxenisthmus springeri Gill & Hoese, 1993[2]
- Genus Rotuma Springer, 1988
- Rotuma lewisi Springer, 1988[3]
- Genus Tyson Springer, 1983
- Tyson belos Springer, 1983[4]
- Genus Xenisthmus Snyder, 1908
- Xenisthmus africanus Smith, 1958 (the flathead wriggler or African wriggler)[5]
- Xenisthmus balius Gill & Randall, 1994[6]
- Xenisthmus chi Gill & Hoese, 2004[7]
- Xenisthmus clarus (Jordan & Seale, 1906)[8]
- Xenisthmus eirospilus Gill & Hoese, 2004[7]
- Xenisthmus polyzonatus (Klunzinger, 1871) (the bull's-eye wriggler or polyzonate wriggler) is peach-coloured with a bull's-eye-like spot on its tail.
- Xenisthmus semicinctus Gill & Hoese, 2004[7]
References
- ^ Schultz, L.P. (1966). In Schultz, L.P.; Woods, L.P.; Lachner, E.A. Order Percomorphida. Suborder Gobiina. Superfamily Gobioidea. (Print). In Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands. 3. Families Kraemeridae through Antennariidae. United States: United States National Museum Bulletin. pp. 1–176.
- ^ Gill, Anthony C.; Hoese, Douglass F. (1993). "Paraxenisthmus springeri, New Genus and Species of Gobioid Fish from the West Pacific, and Its Phylogenetic Position within the Xenisthmidae". Copeia 1993 (4): 1049–1057.
- ^ Springer, V.G. (1988). "Rotuma lewisi, new genus and species of fish from the southwest Pacific (Gobioidei, Xenisthmidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (Biological Society of Washington) 101 (3): 530–539.
- ^ Springer, V.G. (1983). "Tyson Belos, New Genus and Species of Western Pacific Fish (Gobiidae, Xenisthminae) : With Discussions of Gobioid Osteology and Classification". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (Smithsonian Institution Press) 390: 1–40. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ Smith, J.L.B. (1958). "The fishes of the family Eleotridae in the western Indian Ocean". Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology (J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology) 11: 137–163.
- ^ Gill, Anthony C.; Randall, J.E. (1994). "Xenisthmus balius, a new species of fish from the Persian Gulf (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (Biological Society of Washington) 107 (3): 445–450.
- ^ a b c Gill, Anthony C.; Hoese, Douglass F. (2004). "Three New Australian Species of the Fish Genus Xenisthmus (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae)". Records of the Australian Museum (The Australian Museum) 56: 241–246. ISSN 0067-1975. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ Jordan, D.S.; Seale, A. (1994). "he fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania". Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries 25.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Xenisthmidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
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