WoRMS taxon details
Pegasidae
AphiaID: 154575
AphiaID: 154575
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Gasterosteiformes (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Added by Database Management Team | |||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||
| Parent | Gasterosteiformes | |||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details] | |||||||
| Vernacular Names |
| |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Eurypegasus Bleeker, 1863 Genus Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Acanthopegasus accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Cataphractus Gronow, 1763 accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Europegasus accepted as Eurypegasus Bleeker, 1863 Genus Leptopegasus accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Parapegasus Duméril (ex Bleeker), 1870 accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Pégase accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Pegasis accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Pegassus accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Surypegasus accepted as Eurypegasus Bleeker, 1863 Genus Zalises accepted as Eurypegasus Bleeker, 1863 | |||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Body broad and depressed (aberrant), contained in bony plates. Mouth small and inferior; toothless. Rostrum long and flattened arising from a fusion of the nasals. Jaws protrusible. Gill filaments lobelike and with tufts. Opercle and subopercle very small. Preopercle very much enlarged. Dorsal and anal fins short, spineless and usually with 5 soft rays each. Relatively large and horizontal pectoral fins; unbranched rays 10-18. Pelvics abdominal; spine 1; soft rays 1-3. Caudal fin rays 8; the peduncle quadrangular. Branchiostegal rays 5; filamentous. No supracleithrum and post cleithrum. Circumorbital bones 3; lachrymal bone the largest. Swimm bladder absent. Vertebrae 19-22, first 6 abdominal vertebrae elongated. About 13 cm maximum length. [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154575 | |||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| |||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [List Species] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||
| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Pegasidae. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154575 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |