Boarfishes have deep and thin bodies. They are small, with only a few species known to reach a maximum total length of 30 cm (12 in). Their coloration is red, pink, and silvery.
The earliest identified caproid fossils date to the middle Eocene epoch of the early Tertiary period, or roughly 48.6 to 40 million years ago.
See alsoEdit
Some fish of the family Pentacerotidae (order Perciformes) are also called boarfish.
ReferencesEdit
^Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Caproidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
^ abNelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 507. ISBN9781118342336.
caproidae, species, called, boarfish, capros, aper, boarfishes, small, family, marine, fishes, comprising, genera, species, they, were, formerly, placed, order, zeiformes, with, dories, were, later, moved, perciformes, based, percoid, characteristics, caudal, . For the species called boarfish see Capros aper Caproidae or boarfishes are a small family of marine fishes comprising two genera and 12 species They were formerly placed in the order Zeiformes with the dories but were later moved to Perciformes based on percoid characteristics of the caudal skeleton and other morphological evidence 2 More recent revisions of Percomorpha have seen them placed in Caproiformes 2 3 or Acanthuriformes 4 5 Boarfishes are native to the Indian Atlantic and Pacific Oceans where they are mainly found at depths below 50 m 160 ft BoarfishesTemporal range Eocene Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg NDeepbody boarfish Antigonia caprosScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClass ActinopterygiiOrder CaproiformesFamily CaproidaeBonaparte 1835Genera 1 Antigonia Capros Proantigonia EoantigoniaBoarfishes have deep and thin bodies They are small with only a few species known to reach a maximum total length of 30 cm 12 in Their coloration is red pink and silvery The earliest identified caproid fossils date to the middle Eocene epoch of the early Tertiary period or roughly 48 6 to 40 million years ago See also EditSome fish of the family Pentacerotidae order Perciformes are also called boarfish References Edit Froese Rainer and Daniel Pauly eds 2013 Caproidae in FishBase February 2013 version a b Nelson Joseph S Grande Terry C Wilson Mark V H 2016 Fishes of the World 5th ed John Wiley amp Sons p 507 ISBN 9781118342336 Betancur R Ricardo Wiley Edward O Arratia Gloria Acero Arturo Bailly Nicolas Miya Masaki Lecointre Guillaume Orti Guillermo 2017 Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes BMC Evolutionary Biology 17 1 162 doi 10 1186 s12862 017 0958 3 ISSN 1471 2148 PMC 5501477 PMID 28683774 Eschmeyer William N Fricke Ron amp van der Laan Richard eds Eschmeyer s Catalog of Fishes Classification Catalog of Fishes California Academy of Sciences Retrieved 18 July 2023 Froese Rainer Pauly Daniel eds Family Caproidae Fishbase Retrieved 18 July 2023 This Perciformes article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Caproidae amp oldid 1165964833, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
