Luvaridae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the suborder Acanthuroidei in the order Acanthuriformes, of which they are the only pelagic members. The family has a single extant species, the widespread louvar (Luvarus imperialis) and a small number of known extinct species.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Suborder: | Acanthuroidei |
| Family: | Luvaridae Gill, 1885[1] |
Genera and species edit
The family Luvaridae contains the following taxa:[2]
- Genus Luvarus Rafinesque, 1810
- Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque, 1810
- † Luvarus necopinatus (Danilchenko, 1968)
- † Aluvarus? Bannikov & Tyler, 1995 (disputed)
- † Aluvarus praeimperialis (Arambourg, 1967)
- † Avitoluvarus Bannikov & Tyler, 1995
- † Avitoluvarus mariannae Bannikov & Tyler, 1995
- † Avitoluvarus dianae Bannikov & Tyler, 1995
- † Avitoluvarus eocaenicus Bannikov & Tyler, 2001
- † Beerichthys Casier, 1996
- † Beerichthys ingens Casier, 1996
- † Kushlukia Danilchenko, 1968
- † Kushlukia permira Danilchenko, 1968
† means extinct
References edit
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2023). "Luvaridae" in FishBase. February 2023 version.