Bonefishes

For the United States Navy submarines, see USS Bonefish. For the bonefish, the type species of the Albulidae, see Bonefish.

Bonefishes
Temporal range: Kimmeridgian–0
Late Jurassic to Recent[1]
Albula vulpes
Pterothrissus gissu
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Superorder: Elopomorpha
Order: Albuliformes
Greenwood, 1977
Family: Albulidae
Bleeker, 1859
Type species
Albula vulpes
Genera
Synonyms[3][4]
  • Albulae Bleeker 1849
  • Butirini Bleeker 1851
  • Lemniscati Poey 1867
  • Bathythrissidae Günther 1877
  • Pterothrissidae Gill 1893
  • Conorhynchidae Gill 1861

Albulidae is a family of fish, commonly known as the bonefishes, that are popular as game fish in Florida, select locations in the South Pacific and the Bahamas (where two bonefish are featured on the 10-cent coin) and elsewhere. The family is small, with 11 species in 3 genera.[2] Presently, the bonefishes are in their own order: Albuliformes /ˈælbjəlɪfɔːrmiːz/. The families Halosauridae and Notacanthidae were previously classified in this order,[5] but are now, according to FishBase, given their own order Notacanthiformes.[6] The largest bonefish caught in the Western Hemisphere is a 16-pound, 3 ounce example caught off Islamorada, Florida, on March 19, 2007.[7]

  1. ^ Werner Schwarzhans (2018). "A review of Jurassic and Early Cretaceous otoliths and the development of early morphological diversity in otoliths". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 287 (1): 75–121. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2018/0707.
  2. ^ a b Hidaka, K., Tsukamoto, Y. & Iwatsuki, Y. (2016): Nemoossis, a new genus for the eastern Atlantic long-fin bonefish Pterothrissus belloci Cadenat 1937 and a redescription of P. gissu Hilgendorf 1877 from the northwestern Pacific. Ichthyological Research, 64 (1): 45–53.
  3. ^ Van Der Laan, Richard; Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ronald (11 November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (1): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
  4. ^ Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (2017). "Albulidae". FishBase version (02/2017). Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  5. ^ Haaramo, Mikko (2007). "Albuloidei". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  6. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Order Notacanthiformes". FishBase. October 2016 version.
  7. ^ DiMaura, P. (2007). "Huge Bonefish Caught in Florida Keys Weighs in at 16 Pounds, 3 Ounces; World Record Pending". The Florida Keys and Key West. Archived from the original on 2016-10-05.