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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Family

Scientific name
  
Plesiopidae

Higher classification
  
Percoidea

Order
  
Perciformes

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Lower classifications
  
Comet, Olive rockfish, Acanthoplesiops, Acanthoclinus, New Zealand rockfish

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The longfins, also known as roundheads or spiny basslets, are a family, Plesiopidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. They are elongated fishes, found in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.

Contents

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Species

In some classifications, the genus Notograptus is split in its own family, Notograptidae, but FishBase is followed here:

  • Genus Acanthoclinus Jenyns, 1841
  • Olive rockfish, A. fuscus Jenyns, 1842
  • New Zealand rockfish, A. littoreus (Forster, 1801)
  • Stout rockfish, A. marilynae (Hardy, 1985)
  • A. matti (Hardy, 1985)
  • Little rockfish, A. rua (Hardy, 1985)
  • Genus Acanthoplesiops Regan, 1912
  • A. echinatus Smith-Vaniz & Johnson, 1990
  • Hiatt's basslet, A. hiatti Schultz, 1953
  • Scottie, A. indicus (Day, 1888)
  • A. naka Mooi & Gill, 2004
  • A. psilogaster Hardy, 1985
  • Genus Assessor Whitley, 1935
  • Yellow devilfish, A. flavissimus Allen & Kuiter, 1976
  • Blue devilfish, A. macneilli Whitley, 1935
  • A. randalli Allen & Kuiter, 1976
  • Genus Beliops Hardy, 1985
  • B. batanensis Smith-Vaniz & Johnson, 1990
  • B. xanthokrossos Hardy, 1985
  • Genus Belonepterygion McCulloch, 1915
  • B. fasciolatum (Ogilby, 1889)
  • Genus Calloplesiops Fowler and Bean, 1930
  • Comet, Calloplesiops altivelis (Steindachner, 1903)
  • Calloplesiops argus Fowler & Bean, 1930.
  • Genus Fraudella Whitley, 1935
  • F. carassiops Whitley, 1935
  • Genus Notograptus
  • Shark Bay eel-blenny, N. gregoryi Whitley, 1941
  • Spotted eel blenny, N. guttatus Günther, 1867
  • N. kauffmani Tyler & Smith, 1970
  • N. livingstonei Whitley, 1931
  • Genus Paraplesiops Bleeker, 1875
  • Alison's blue devil, P. alisonae Hoese & Kuiter, 1984
  • Eastern blue devil, P. bleekeri (Günther, 1861)
  • Southern blue devil, P. meleagris (Peters, 1869)
  • Northern blue devil, P. poweri Ogilby, 1908
  • Western blue devil, P. sinclairi Hutchins, 1987
  • Genus Plesiops Oken, 1817
  • P. auritus Mooi, 1995
  • P. cephalotaenia Inger, 1955
  • Crimsontip longfin, P. coeruleolineatus Rüppell, 1835
  • Bluegill longfin, P. corallicola Bleeker, 1853
  • P. facicavus Mooi, 1995
  • P. genaricus Mooi & Randall, 1991
  • Threadfin longfin, P. gracilis Mooi & Randall, 1991
  • P. insularis Mooi & Randall, 1991
  • Spotted longfin, P. multisquamata Inger, 1955
  • Moustache longfin, P. mystaxus Mooi, 1995
  • P. nakaharai Tanaka, 1917
  • Whitespotted longfin, P. nigricans (Rüppell, 1828)
  • Sharp-nosed longfin, P. oxycephalus Bleeker, 1855
  • P. polydactylus Mooi, 1995
  • P. thysanopterus Mooi, 1995
  • P. verecundus Mooi, 1995
  • Genus Steeneichthys Allen and Randall, 1985
  • S. nativitatus Allen, 1997
  • S. plesiopsus Allen & Randall, 1985
  • Genus Trachinops Günther, 1861
  • T. brauni Allen, 1977
  • T. caudimaculatus McCoy, 1890
  • T. noarlungae Glover, 1974
  • Eastern hulafish, T. taeniatus Günther, 1861
  • References

    Longfin Wikipedia