Triportheidae
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| Triportheus angulatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Suborder: | Characoidei |
| Family: | Fowler, 1940[1] |
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Triportheidae, the hatchet characins, is a family of characiform fishes, including about 23 species. This family was raised from the status of a subfamily to family based on extensive analysis of characiform species.[2]
Fossils of this group date back to the Oligocene, with the fossil species †Lignobrycon ligniticus (Woodward, 1898) from Brazil.[3]
Taxonomy
The following genera are placed in this family:[4][5][1]
- Family Triportheidae Fowler, 1940
- Subfamily Triportheinae Fowler, 1940 (keeled characines)
- Genus Lignobrycon Eigenmann & Myers, 1929 (=Moojenichthys Miranda-Ribeiro, 1956)
- Genus Triportheus Cope, 1872
- Subfamily Agoniatinae Bleeker, 1859 (anchovy characines)
- Subfamily Clupeacharacinae Fowler, 1958 (herring characines)
- Genus Clupeacharax Pearson, 1924
- Genus Engraulisoma Castro, 1981
- Subfamily Triportheinae Fowler, 1940 (keeled characines)
References
- ^ a b Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ Oliveira, C., Avelino, G.S., Abe, K.T., Mariguela, T.C., Benine, R.C., Orti, G., Vari, R.P., & Correa e Castro, R.M. (2011): Phylogenetic relationships within the speciose family Characidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes) based on multilocus analysis and extensive ingroup sampling. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11: 275. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-275
- ^ Malabarba, Maria Cláudia S. L. (1998). "Phylogeny of Fossil Characiformes and Paleobiogeography of the Tremembé Formation, São Paulo, Brazil.". Phylogeny and Classification of Neotropical Fishes. Part 1 - Fossils and Geological Evidence (PDF). pp. 69–84.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Triportheidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 Jun 2025.
- ^ Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-04-28.