Drepane (fish)
Drepane is a genus of fishes known commonly as the sicklefishes.[1] It is the only genus in the perciform fish family Drepaneidae.[1] These fish occur in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, and in the eastern Atlantic near Africa.
| Drepane | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Spotted sicklefish (D. punctata) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Drepaneidae T. N. Gill, 1872 |
| Genus: | Drepane G. Cuvier, 1831 |
| Type species | |
| Chaetodon punctatus | |
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[2]
- Drepane africana Osório, 1892 – African sicklefish
- Drepane longimana (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) – concertina fish
- Drepane punctata (Linnaeus, 1758) – spotted sicklefish
See also
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Drepaneidae" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Drepane in FishBase. April 2013 version.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.