Pristigenys

Life-forms

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: Eupercaria
Ordo: Priacanthiformes

Familia: Priacanthidae
Genus: Pristigenys
Species: P. alta – †P. bella – †P. caduca – †P. dentifer – P. meyeri – P. niphonia – P. refulgens – †P. rutoti – P. serrula – †P. spectabilis – †P. substriata
Name

Pristigenys Agassiz, 1835
References

Pristigenys – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Pristigenys species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 08/2021.

Vernacular names

Pristigenys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, P. substriata, which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.[4]

The extant species have been classified in the genus Pseudopriacanthus which both Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes treat as a synonym of Pristigenys,[3] but recent work has argued that they should be separated based on numerous differences in the cranial region and the fins.[4] [5]
Species

The following species are classified in the genus Pristigenys:[6][4]

Pristigenys alta (Gill, 1862) - Short bigeye
Pristigenys meyeri (Günther, 1872)
Pristigenys niphonia (Cuvier, 1829) - Japanese bigeye
Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes, 1862)
Pristigenys serrula (Gilbert, 1891) - Popeye catalufa
†Pristigenys substriatus (Blainville, 1818)

References

Agassiz, L. (1835). "Kritische Revision der in der Ittiolitologia Veronese abgebildeten fossilen Fische". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde. 1835: 299.
de Blainville, H. D. (1818). "Des Ichthyolites du Monte Bolca, ou Vestena Nuova dans le Veronais". Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. Vol. 18. Paris: Deterville. p. 352.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Priacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
Carnevale, Giorgio; Johnson, G. David; Marramà, Giuseppe; Bannikov, Alexandre F. (2017). "A reappraisal of the Eocene priacanthid fish Pristigenys substriata (Blainville, 1818) from Monte Bolca, Italy". Journal of Paleontology. 91 (3): 554–565. doi:10.1017/jpa.2017.19.
Starnes, W.C., 1988. "Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae." Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(2):117-203.

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Pristigenys in FishBase. December 2019 version.