Ordre Résumé for Lophiiformes
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Réf. Princ. |
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Ordre |
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Lophiiformes anglerfishes |
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Classe |
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Teleostei |
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Ordre frère |
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Percopsiformes 50 M years |
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Réf. |
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Premier signalement fossile |
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early Tertiary |
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Présent dans |
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Marin |
Eau douce |
Saumâtre |
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Remarque |
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First ray of spinous dorsal, if present, on head and transformed into illicium (line) and esca (bait), a device for attracting prey to mouth; pelvic fins, if present, in front of pectorals, with one spine and four (rarely) or five soft rays; gill opening small tubelike, at or behind (rarely partly in front of) pectoral fin base; five or six branchiostegal rays; no ribs; pectoral radials 2-5, narrow and elongate; first vertebra fused to skull; swim bladder, when present, physoclistous. |
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Classe Étymologie |
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Greek aktis = ray, thunderbolt, beam + Greek pterygion, diminutive of pteryx = wing, fin. Ref. 45335. |
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Ordre Étymologie |
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Greek, lophos, crest + Latin, forma = shape (Ref. 45335). |
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Familles |
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( n = 18 ) - Antennariidae Brachionichthyidae Caulophrynidae Centrophrynidae Ceratiidae Chaunacidae Diceratiidae Gigantactinidae Himantolophidae Histiophrynidae Linophrynidae Lophichthyidae Lophiidae Melanocetidae Neoceratiidae Ogcocephalidae Oneirodidae Rhycheridae Tathicarpidae Tetrabrachiidae Thaumatichthyidae |
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