Epigonidae

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Family of ray-finned fishes

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::summary Family of ray-finned fishes ::

| fossil_range = | image = Epigonus pandionis.jpg | image_caption = Bigeye, Epigonus pandionis | taxon = Epigonidae | authority = Poey, 1861 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision_ref = | subdivision = See text Epigonidae, the deepwater cardinalfishes, are a family of acropomatiform ray-finned fishes. The family includes about 43 species. Despite their name, they are not closely related to the true cardinalfishes of the family Apogonidae.

They are small fishes: the largest, Epigonus telescopus, reaches 75 cm in length, and most grow to no more than 20 cm or so.

They are found in temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world. They are bathydemersal fishes (inhabiting deep waters close to the sea bed) and have been found at depths of 3000 m.

Fossil epigonid skeletons, tentatively assigned to Epigonus, are known from the earliest Eocene-aged Danata Formation of Turkmenistan.

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Genera

The following genera are included in the family:

References

References

  1. (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa.
  2. {{FishBase family. (2013)
  3. (2016). "Fishes of the World". Wiley.
  4. (1997). "A new species of the deepwater cardinalfish ''Epigonus'' (Perciformes: Epigonidae) from the Galápagos Islands". Ichthyological Research.
  5. (1998). "Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Volume 2: Scorpaeniformes to Tetraodontiformes". University of Texas Press.
  6. Bannikov, A. F.. (2000). "New Data on Late Paleocene Marine Percoids (Perciformes) of Turkmenistan". Journal of Ichthyology.
  7. Sepkoski, Jack. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Seposki Online.
  8. {{Cof family

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