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Antennarioidei

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Antennarioidei
Painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus), the type species of the genus Antennarius.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Lophiiformes
Suborder: Antennarioidei
Regan, 1912[1]
Families

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Antennarioidei is a suborder of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.

Taxonomy

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Antennarioidei was first proposed as a taxonomic grouping in 1912 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan.[1] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this taxon as one of the five suborders in the order Lophiiformes. It and the suborders Chaunacoidei, Ogocephaloidei, and Ceratioidei, are more derived than their basal sister group the Lophioidei.[2] In some phylogenies the suborder Antennarioidei is the most basal of the Lophiiformes suborders other than Lophioidei.[3]

The relationships of the suborders within Lophiiformes as set out in Pietsch and Grobecker's 1987 Frogfishes of the world: systematics, zoogeography, and behavioral ecology is shown below.[3]

Lophiiformes 
Red-lipped batfish
Striped anglerfish (Antennarius striatus)

Etymology

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Antennarioidei is derived from Antennarius, the type genus of the family Antennaridae. Antennarius suffixes -ius to antenna, an allusion to first dorsal spine being adapted into a tentacle on the snout used as a lure to attract prey.[4]

Families

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Antennarioidei contains the following families and these are related as set out in the cladogram below:[2][5][3]

Antennarioidei 

Brachionichthyidae Gill, 1863 (Handfishes or warty anglerfishes)

Lophichthyidae Boeseman, 1964 (Lophichthyid frogfishes)

Tetrabrachiidae Regan, 1912 (Tetrabrachid frogfishes)

Antennariidae Jarocki 1822 (Frogfishes)

Characteristics

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Antennarioidei fishes are characterised by the first dorsal fin being made up of three separate spines on the head, the first being the illicium with the second sometimes being short, although this spine is not everr embedded within the skin. The pterygiophores of the first dorsal spine and the third dorsal spine have highly compressed dorsal expansions. The interhyal has a central backwards directed process that touches the preoperculum.[2]

Distribution

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Antennarioidei fishes are found in the tropical and subtropical oceans of the world, although this applies only to the Antennaridae, the other three families being confined to the seas around Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b C. T. Regan (1912). "The classification of the teleostean fishes of the order Pediculati". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8. 9: 277–289.
  2. ^ a b c d Nelson, J.S.; Grande, T.C.; Wilson, M.V.H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 508–518. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. LCCN 2015037522. OCLC 951899884. OL 25909650M.
  3. ^ a b c Masaki Miya; Theodore W Pietsch; James W Orr; et al. (2010). "Evolutionary history of anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes): a mitogenomic perspective". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10 (58): 58. Bibcode:2010BMCEE..10...58M. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-58. PMC 2836326.
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf (14 November 2022). "Order LOPHIIFORMES (part 1): Families LOPHIIDAE, ANTENNARIIDAE, TETRABRACHIIDAE, LOPHICHTHYIDAE, BRACHIONICHTHYIDAE, CHAUNACIDAE and OGCOCEPHALIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  5. ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.