Sundasalanx

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: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Clupei
Superordo: Clupeomorpha
Ordo: Clupeiformes
Subordo: Clupeoidei

Familia: Sundasalangidae
Genus: Sundasalanx
Species (7): S. malleti – S. megalops – S. mekongensis – S. mesops – S. microps – S. platyrhynchus – S. praecox
Name

Sundasalanx Roberts, 1981
Gender: masculine
Type species: Sundasalanx praecox Roberts
Fixation: original designation

References

Roberts, T.R. 1981: Sundasalangidae, a new family of minute freshwater salmoniform fishes from southeast Asia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 4), 42 (9): 295–302. BHL

Links

ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Sundasalanx species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 08/2021.
Sundasalanx and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
ITIS

Sundasalanx, the Sundaland noodlefishes, is the only genus in the family Sundasalangidae, which belongs to the same order as the herrings and their relatives. This family of extremely small fishes is restricted to freshwater environments of Southeast Asia with Indonesia being home to the majority of species. The seven currently recognized species in this genus are:

Sundasalanx malleti Siebert & Crimmen, 1997
Sundasalanx megalops Siebert & Crimmen, 1997
Sundasalanx mekongensis Britz & Kottelat, 1999
Sundasalanx mesops Siebert & Crimmen, 1997
Sundasalanx microps T. R. Roberts, 1981
Sundasalanx platyrhynchus Siebert & Crimmen, 1997
Sundasalanx praecox T. R. Roberts, 1981 (dwarf noodlefish)

The FishBase classifies Sundasalanx as a pedomorphic genus within the family Clupeidae rather than as an independent family,[1] while this is not consistent.[2]
References

Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). "Clupeidae" in FishBase. December 2014 version.
Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). "Sundasalangidae" in FishBase. June 2014 version.