Pristigenys

Pristigenys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, P. substriata, which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.[4]

Pristigenys
Pristigenys alta
Holotype of P. substriata: MNHN.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Priacanthidae
Genus:	Pristigenys Agassiz, 1835[1]
Type species
†Chaetodon substriatus Blainville, 1818[2]
Synonyms[3]
Pseudopriacanthus Bleeker, 1869

The extant species have been classified in the genus Pseudopriacanthus which both Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes treat as a synonym of Pristigenys,[3] but recent work has argued that they should be separated based on numerous differences in the cranial region and the fins.[4] [5]

Species

The following species are classified in the genus Pristigenys:[6][4]

• Pristigenys alta (Gill, 1862) - Short bigeye
• Pristigenys meyeri (Günther, 1872)
• Pristigenys niphonia (Cuvier, 1829) - Japanese bigeye
• Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes, 1862)
• Pristigenys serrula (Gilbert, 1891) - Popeye catalufa
• †Pristigenys substriatus (Blainville, 1818)

References

1. Agassiz, L. (1835). "Kritische Revision der in der Ittiolitologia Veronese abgebildeten fossilen Fische". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde. 1835: 299.
2. de Blainville, H. D. (1818). "Des Ichthyolites du Monte Bolca, ou Vestena Nuova dans le Veronais". Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. 18. Paris: Deterville. p. 352.
3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Priacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
4. Carnevale, Giorgio; Johnson, G. David; Marramà, Giuseppe; Bannikov, Alexandre F. (2017). "A reappraisal of the Eocene priacanthid fish Pristigenys substriata (Blainville, 1818) from Monte Bolca, Italy". Journal of Paleontology. 91 (3): 554–565. doi:10.1017/jpa.2017.19.
5. Starnes, W.C., 1988. "Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae." Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(2):117-203.
6. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Pristigenys in FishBase. December 2019 version.

Further reading

• Nelson, J. S. (1994). Fishes of the World, Third Edition.. xvii + 600. John Wiley and Sons. New York. ISBN 0-471-54713-1.
• Starnes, Wayne C. (1988). "Revision, Phylogeny and Biogeographic Comments on the Circumtropical Marine Percoid Fish Family Priacanthidae". Bulletin of Marine Science. 43 (2): 117–203.