Harpagiferidae T. Gill 1861 ...

• Main Authors: Parker, Elyse, Near, Thomas J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Harpagiferidae; Antarctic; Eastman; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7852575; https://zenodo.org/record/7852575

Harpagiferidae T. Gill 1861: 510 Type species.— Harpagifer bispinis (Forster in Bloch and Schneider, 1801: 45). Definition.— The least inclusive clade that includes Harpagifer bispinis (Forster) and Artedidraco mirus Lönnberg (1905: 40– 41). The reference phylogeny is one inferred from a Sanger sequenced dataset comprising two mitochondrial gene regions and seven nuclear genes (Dornburg et al., 2017: fig. 2). Morphological apomorphies.— (1) Gill membranes are united and joined at the isthmus but do not form a fold (Eakin, 1981; Balushkin, 2000) and (2) the presence of one or two epurals (Eakin, 1981). Composition.— There are 18 valid and distinct species of Harpagiferidae with six species of Harpagifer and 12 species of Artedidraconinae. Duhamel et al. (2005: 328, 358) and Eastman and Eakin (2021) call into question the distinctiveness of the five additional species of Harpagifer described by V. P. Prirodina and A. V. Neyelov ( H. andirashevi Prirodina 2000, H. nybelini Prirodina 2002, H. crozetensis ... : Published as part of Parker, Elyse & Near, Thomas J., 2022, Phylogeny Reconciles Classification in Antarctic Plunderfishes, pp. 662-674 in Ichthyology & Herpetology 110 (4) on page 667, DOI: 10.1643/i2021126, http://zenodo.org/record/7846951 ...