The Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the Old & New World silversides, the rainbowfishes, and several less-familiar families, including the unusual Phallostethidae.

Atheriniform, any member of the order Atheriniformes, containing 15 families of marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes, including the flying fishes (see photograph), needlefishes, silversides, and cyprinodonts.

This chapter concerns the Atheriniformes, which at present includes the silversides, phallostethids, rainbowfishes, and related taxa. At more than 50 million years old, fossils of the genus Atherinidarum from the early Eocene of France are the oldest known atheriniforms.

The Atheriniformes represent a radiation from near the base of the acanthopterygian stock, but their exact relationships within this group are not known. The present distribution of atheriniforms indicates that the group arose in fresh or brackish waters of the tropical Indo-Pacific region, but little is known of their early fossil history.

Spiny-rayed fishes with a pelvic spine, an orbitosphenoid, and 19 principal rays in the tail. Of the two main lineages the first contains the Holocentridae, coastal fishes of warm seas. The second is a series of oceanic families centring around the Trachichthyidae.

The Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the Old World silversides, the Neotropical silversides, and several less-familiar families.

2012年9月17日 · Euryhaline and mostly inhabits coastal floodplains where it’s found in both fresh and brackish habitats, including tidal estuaries and salt marshes. It’s particularly common in swamps, billabongs, and slow-moving streams where aquatic vegetation grows densely, but some populations have colonised upper sections of freshwater streams.

Like the Beloniformes that we looked at a few months ago, the Atheriniformes are a small group of bony fish that are primarily marine in distribution but does include a number of freshwater species that have become moderately important aquarium fish.

The Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the Old World silversides and several less-familiar families, including the unusual Phallostethidae.

Atheriniformes – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). For more multimedia, look at on Wikimedia Commons.

Atheriniformes is an order of ray-finned fishes. There are 355 species of Atheriniformes, in 51 genera and 10 families. They have sexual reproduction.

Taxonomy and phylogeny of Atheriniformes, a order of ray-finned fishes. Based on the Phylogenetic Fish Classification. Also includes species checklists, fossil calibrations, DNA sequences.

2021年8月6日 · Atheriniformes is an order of ray-finned fishes which contains around eight families and 354 species of narrow, silvery marine and freshwater species of fishes which are identified by the presence of similar characteristics.

Atheriniformes, Fam. Atherinidae. Actinopterygii: The Actinopterygii, or ray-finned fishes, constitute a class or subclass of the bony fishes.

The Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the Old World silversides and several less-familiar families, including the unusual Phallostethidae.

silversides, any of several species of small slim schooling fish of the family Atherinidae (order Atheriniformes), found in freshwater and along coasts around the world in warm and temperate regions.

The Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the Old World silversides and several less-familiar families, including the unusual Phallostethidae.

Greek, atherine = a kind of smelt + Latin, forma = shape (Ref. 45335).

The Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the Old World silversides and several less-familiar families, including the unusual Phallostethidae.

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