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 | |
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| Pristolepis pentacantha | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Species edit
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)[citation needed]
- Pristolepis marginata Jerdon, 1849 (Malabar leaffish)
- Pristolepis pauciradiata Plamoottil & Win, 2017 (Myanmar Leaf fish)
- Pristolepis pentacantha Plamoottil, 2014 (Wayanad leaffish)
- Pristolepis procerus Plamoottil, 2017 (Deep- Bodied Leaffish)
- Pristolepis rubripinnis Britz, Krishna Kumar & Baby, 2012[5]
References edit
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Pristolepididae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
- ^ 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. S2CID 84111610.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Pristolepis in FishBase. February 2019 version.
- ^ 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. S2CID 88352864.
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