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Dartfishes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Ptereleotridae
Genera

Aioliops
Nemateleotris
Oxymetopon
Parioglossus
Ptereleotris
See text for species.

Dartfishes are a family, Ptereleotridae, of goby-like fishes in the order Perciformes.

The dartfishes were formerly classified as the subfamily Ptereleotrinae of the wormfishes, Microdesmidae, but this classification made Microdesmidae polyphyletic, hence the elevation to a family within the suborder Gobioidei.

Species

FishBase lists 45 species in five genera:

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Ptereleotridae". FishBase. March 2006 version.
  2. C. Thacker (2000). "Phylogeny of the Wormfishes (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Microdesmidae)". Copeia. 2000 (4): 940–957.
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