| Longfin | |
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| Crimsontip longfin, (Plesiops coeruleolineatus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Percomorpha |
| Clade: | Ovalentaria |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Plesiopidae Günther, 18611 |
| Subfamilies | |
See text for genera. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acanthoclinidae | |
The longfins, also known as roundheads or spiny basslets, are a family, Plesiopidae, which were formerly placed in the order Perciformes or considered indeterminate percomorphs, but are now considered basal blenniiforms.23 They are elongated fishes, found in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
Classification
In some classifications, the genus Notograptus is split in its own family, Notograptidae, but FishBase is followed here. There are two subfamilies within the Plesiopidae and the genera are as follows:2
- Subfamily Acanthoclininae Günther, 1861
- Genus Acanthoclinus Jenyns, 1841
- Genus Acanthoplesiops Regan, 1912
- Genus Beliops Hardy, 1985
- Genus Belonepterygion McCulloch, 1915
- Genus Notograptus Günther, 1867
- Subfamily Plesiopinae Günther, 1861
- Genus Assessor Whitley, 1935
- Genus Calloplesiops Fowler and Bean, 1930
- Genus Fraudella Whitley, 1935
- Genus Paraplesiops Bleeker, 1875
- Genus Plesiops Oken, 1817
- Genus Steeneichthys Gerald R. Allen and Randall, 1985
- Genus Trachinops Günther, 1861
References
References
- Bailly N, ed. (2017). "Plesiopidae Günther, 1861". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species.
- J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 752. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-02-10.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Plesiopidae". FishBase. January 2006 version.
- "Plesiopidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 March 2006.