Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Characiformes
Familia: Distichodontidae
Genus: Ichthyborus
Species:
Name
Ichthyborus Günther, 1864
Synonyms
Ra Whitley, 1931
References
Whitley, G.P. 1931: New names for Australian fishes. Australian zoologist, 6(4): 310–334.
External links
Ra in ION
Ra in ION
Ichthyborus – Taxon details on Nomenclator Zoologicus (NZ).
Ra – Taxon details on Nomenclator Zoologicus (NZ).
Ichthyborus besse
Ichthyborus is a genus of distichodontid fishes found in tropical Africa. They are piscivores that feed both on (whole) fish and fins of fish.[1][2][3]
Species
There are five recognized species:[4]
Ichthyborus besse (de Joannis, 1835)
Ichthyborus congolensis Giltay, 1930
Ichthyborus monodi (Pellegrin, 1927)
Ichthyborus ornatus (Boulenger, 1899)
Ichthyborus quadrilineatus (Pellegrin, 1904)
References
Lavoué, S.; M.E.Arnegard; D.L. Rabosky; P.B. McIntyre; D. Arcila; R.P. Vari; M. Nishida (2017). Trophic evolution in African citharinoid fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes) and the origin of intraordinal pterygophagy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 113: 23-32. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.05.001
Matthes, H. (1961). Feeding Habit of Some Central African Freshwater Fishes. Nature 192: 78–80.
Arroyave, J.; M.L.J. Stiassny (2014). DNA barcoding reveals novel insights into pterygophagy and prey selection in distichodontid fishes (Characiformes: Distichodontidae). Ecology and evolution 4(23): 4534–4542. doi:10.1002/ece3.1321
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ichthyborus". FishBase. October 2018 version.
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