Lutjaninae

Lutjaninae

Lutjaninae

Subfamily of fishes

Lutjaninae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes, one of four subfamilies classified within the family Lutjanidae, the snappers.

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Genera

The subfamily Lutjaninae contains 6 genera and 76 species:[2][3]

A taxonomic study of snappers within the subfamily Lutjaninae in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean indicated that the monotypic genera Ocyurus and Rhomboplites sit within the genus Lutjanus.[4]

Fossil history

The Lutjaninae are represented in the fossil record as far back as the 48.6 million years ago from the Eocene where specimens have been found in the United Kingdom and Louisiana. More recent specimens are known from the Miocene in Mexico and Florida and the Quaternary of the Turks and Caicos Islands.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
  2. [2]
    J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 458. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2021). "Lutjanidae" in FishBase. February 2021 version.
  4. [4]
    John R. Gold; Gary Voelker; Mark A. Renshaw (2011). "Phylogenetic relationships of tropical western Atlantic snappers in subfamily Lutjaninae (Lutjanidae: Perciformes) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 102 (4): 915–929. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01621.x.
  5. [5]
    "Subfamily Lutjaninae Gill 1861 (perch-like fish)". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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