Howellidae
Encyclopedia
The oceanic basslets are a small family
of perciform
fishes containing three genera
and eight species
of mostly deep-water, bottom-dwelling fishes:
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of perciform
Perciformes
The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...
fishes containing three genera
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
and eight species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of mostly deep-water, bottom-dwelling fishes:
- Genus Bathysphyraenops
- Bathysphyraenops declivifrons Fedoryako, 1976
- Bathysphyraenops simplex Parr, 1933
- Genus HowellaHowellaHowella is a genus of temperate perches in the family Percichthyidae. There is some debate of the placement of this genus. Some ichthyologists place this in the family Howellidae.-Species:* Genus Howella...
- Howella brodieiPelagic bassletThe pelagic basslet, Howella brodiei, is an oceanic basslet of the family Howellidae, found circumglobally in tropical and subtropical oceans, at depths down to 1,800 m. Its length is up to 15 cm.-References:...
OgilbyWilliam OgilbyWilliam Ogilby was an Irish barrister and naturalist.Ogilby was honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1839 to 1846....
, 1899 (Pelagic Basslet) - Howella pammelas (HellerEdmund HellerEdmund Heller was an American zoologist.Heller attended Stanford University in 1896 and finished his study of zoology with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901. From 1926 to 1928 he was curator of mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago...
& SnodgrassRobert Evans SnodgrassRobert Evans Snodgrass was an American entomologist and artist who made important contributions to the fields of arthropod morphology, anatomy, evolution, and metamorphosis....
, 1903) - Howella parini Fedoryako, 1976
- Howella sherborni (Norman, 1930) (Sherborn's Pelagic Bass)
- Howella zina Fedoryako, 1976
- Howella brodiei
- Genus Pseudohowella
- Pseudohowella intermedia Fedoryako, 1976
External links
- http://www.fishbase.org/summary/FamilySummary.php?ID=657