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| Banjos banjos | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Eupercaria |
| Order: | Acropomatiformes |
| Family: | Banjosidae D.S. Jordan and W.F. Thompson, 19122 |
| Genus: | Banjos Bleeker, 18761 |
| Type species | |
| Anoplus banjos Richardson, 1846
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Banjos is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, the only genus in the monotypic family Banjosidae, which is part of the order Acropomatiformes.4 They are native to the western Indian and the Atlantic coasts of Africa,5 and is made up of the three species of banjofishes.5
Species
Banjos have three currently recognised species:53
- Banjos aculeatus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Eastern Australian banjofish)
- Banjos banjos (John Richardson, 1846) (Banjofish)
- Banjos peregrinus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Timor Sea banjofish)
References
References
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Banjos". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- Mizuki Matsunuma & Hiroyuki Motomura (2017). "Review of the genus Banjos (Perciformes: Banjosidae) with descriptions of two new species and a new subspecies". Ichthyological Research. 64 (3): 265–294. doi:10.1007/s10228-016-0569-9. S2CID 5630490. Abstract
- "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification - California Academy of Sciences". www.calacademy.org. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Banjos". FishBase. December 2019 version.