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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: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Pelagiaria
Ordo: Scombriformes

Familia: Chiasmodontidae
Genus: Kali
Species: K. colubrina - K. falx - K. indica – K. kerberti – K. macrodon – K. macrura – K. parri
Name

Kali Lloyd, 1909

References

Johnson, R.K. 1969: A Review of the Fish Genus Kali (Perciformes: Chiasmodontidae). Copeia, 1969(2): 386–391. JSTOR
Melo, M.R.S. 2008: The genus Kali Lloyd (Chiasmodontidae: Teleostei) with description of new two species, and the revalidation of K. kerberti Weber. Zootaxa, 1747: 1–33. Abstract & excerpt
Melo, M.R.S. 2010: Kali colubrina Melo, 2008: a senior synonym of Kali caribbaea Prokofiev, 2008 (Acanthomorphata: Chiasmodontidae). Zootaxa, 2576: 56–58. Preview
Prokofiev, A.M. 2008: Two new species of swallowerfishes from the genera Chiasmodon and Kali (Chiasmodontidae). Voprosy ikhtiologii, 48: 158–165. [in Russian, English translation in Journal of ichthyology, 48: 209–216. ISSN: 0032-9452 DOI: 10.1007/s11489-008-3002-z]

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Kali is a genus of snaketooth fishes, deep ocean fish from the family Chiasmodontidae.
Etymology

The genus is named after the Hindu goddess of time, change and destruction, Kali.[2]
Species

There are currently seven recognized species in this genus:[1]

Kali colubrina M. R. S. de Melo, 2008
Kali falx M. R. S. de Melo, 2008
Kali indica Lloyd, 1909
Kali kerberti (M. C. W. Weber, 1913)
Kali macrodon (Norman, 1929)
Kali macrura (A. E. Parr, 1933)
Kali parri R. K. Johnson & Cohen, 1974

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Kali". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Kali in FishBase. February 2018 version.

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