Aphaniidae

Aphaniops stoliczkanus (Day, 1872)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinodontiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Atherinomorphae Ordo: Cyprinodontiformes

Familia: Aphaniidae
Genera (8 + 1†): Anatolichthys – Aphaniops – Aphanius – Apricaphanius – Esmaeilius – Kosswigichthys – Paraphanius – Tellia – †Brachylebias

Name

Aphaniidae Hoedeman, 1949

References

Primary references

• Sethi, R.P. 1960. Osteology and phylogeny of oviparous cyprinodont fishes (order Cyprinodontiformes). Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. Florida, Univ. Microfilms, Ann Arbor, pp. 1–275.

Additional references

• Berg, L.S. 1949. Freshwater fishes of Iran and adjacent countries. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 8, 783–858.
• Freyhof, J. & Yoğurtçuoğlu, B. 2020. A proposal for a new generic structure of the killifish family Aphaniidae, with the description of Aphaniops teimorii (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). Zootaxa 4810(3): 421–451. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4810.3.2 Reference page. 

Links

• Aphaniidae  and its species in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Genera of Aphaniidae (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

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