Roundheads

The longfins, also known as roundheads or spiny basslets, are a family, Plesiopidae, which were formerly placed in the order Perciformes but are now regarded as being incertae sedis in the subseries Ovalentaria in the clade Percomorpha.^[2] They are elongated fishes, found in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.

Classification

Comet, Calloplesiops altivelis

Eastern blue devil, Paraplesiops bleekeri

In some classifications, the genus Notograptus is split in its own family, Notograptidae, but FishBase is followed here. There are two subfamilies within the Plesiopidae and the genera are as follows:^[2]

• Subfamily Acanthoclininae Günther, 1861
  • Genus Acanthoclinus Jenyns, 1841
  • Genus Acanthoplesiops Regan, 1912
  • Genus Beliops Hardy, 1985
  • Genus Belonepterygion McCulloch, 1915
  • Genus Notograptus Günther, 1867
• Subfamily Plesiopinae Günther, 1861
  • Genus Assessor Whitley, 1935
  • Genus Calloplesiops Fowler and Bean, 1930
  • Genus Fraudella Whitley, 1935
  • Genus Paraplesiops Bleeker, 1875
  • Genus Plesiops Oken, 1817
  • Genus Steeneichthys Gerald R. Allen and Randall, 1985
  • Genus Trachinops Günther, 1861

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Plesiopidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
• "Plesiopidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 March 2006.