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Sternopygidae
Description | Glass knifefishes are fishes in the family Sternopygidae in the order Gymnotiformes. Species are also known as rattail knifefishes. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternopygidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | family | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Gymnotiformes : Sternopygidae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Sternopygidae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common Name(s) | Glass Knifefishes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternopygidae |
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Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Archolaemus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Distocyclus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Eigenmannia genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Japigny genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Rhabdolichops genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Sternopygus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Marine Species |
Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230. - via World Register of Marine Species |
Albert & Fink, 2007 (fossil) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Eschmeyer online (Jul 2012) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
CoL2006/FishBase - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
FishBase - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!