Zebrasomini
Zebrasoma veliferum
Paracanthurus hepatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Acanthuridae
Subfamily: Acanthurinae
Tribe: Zebrasomini
Richard Winterbottom, 1993[1]
Genera

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Zebrasomini is a tribe of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Acanthuridae and it is one of three tribes in the subfamily Acanthurinae.

Taxonomy

Zebrasomini was first proposed as a taxon in 1933 by American ichthyologist Richard Winterbottom, Winterbottom delineated it as consisting of the two genera Zebrasomus and Paracanthurus, alongside the monotypic tribe Prionurini and with the remaining two Acanthurine genera, Acanthurus and Ctenochaetus, being classified in the tribe Acanthurini.[1] These tribes make up the subfamily Acanthurinae which with the subfamily Nasinae make up the family Acanthuridae.[2]

Genera

There are two genera within the tribe Zebrasomini:[2][3]

Characteristics

The Zebrasomini was defined by Winterbottom using similarities in the osteology of the skull between the two genera and in comparison to the other two Acanthurine tribes, they also have no scales on their larvae.[1] Winterbottom's treatment has been supported by subsequent phylogenetic studies.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Richard Winterbottom (1993). "Myological Evidence for the Phylogeny of Recent Genera of Surgeonfishes (Percomorpha, Acanthuridae), with Comments on the Acanthuroidei". Copeia. 1993 (1): 21–39.
  2. 1 2 J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 497–502. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
  3. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Acanthuridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  4. ↑ Laurie Sorenson; Francesco Santini; Giorgio Carnevale; Michael E. Alfaro (2013). "A multi-locus timetree of surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae, Percomorpha), with revised family taxonomy". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 68 (1): 150–160. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.03.014. ISSN 1055-7903.
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