Latridae

Latridae is a family of perciform fishes known as the trumpeters. They are found in the Pacific Ocean, southern Indian Ocean and southeastern Atlantic Ocean. They are fished commercially and for sport. They are closely related to Cheilodactylidae, and the majority of the species traditionally placed in that family have been reassigned to Latridae based on DNA and morphological analyses, with the kelpfish and marblefish the closest relatives of Latridae.[2][3][4]

Latridae
Telescope fish Mendosoma lineatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Latridae
T. N. Gill, 1862
Genera[1][2]
Goniistius vittatus
Goniistius zonatus in Izu, Japan

References

  1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Latridae" in FishBase. December 2013 version.
  2. Ludt, W.B., Burridge, C.P. & Chakrabarty, P. (2019). A taxonomic revision of Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters. Zootaxa 585(1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4585.1.7
  3. Burridge and Smolenski (2004). Molecular phylogeny of the Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Perciformes: Cirrhitoidea) with notes on taxonomy and biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 118–127
  4. Randall (2007). Reef and Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands. ISBN 1-929054-03-3
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