- Thornfish
Taxobox
name = Thornfishes
image_width = 240px
image_caption = Thornfish, "Bovichtus variegatus "
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Actinopterygii
ordo =Perciformes
subordo =Notothenioidei
familia = Bovichtidae
familia_authority = Gill, 1893
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Bovichtus " "Cottoperca " "Halaphritis " See text for species.The thornfishes are a family, Bovichtidae, of fishes in the order
Perciformes . The family is spelled Bovichthyidae in J. S. Nelson's "Fishes of the World ". They are native to coastal waters offAustralia ,New Zealand , andSouth America , and to rivers and lakes of southeast Australia andTasmania .Phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters has revealed that the family Bovichtidae is not a monophyletic group. [Balushkin, A. V. (1992) "Classification, phylogenetic relationships, and origins of the families of the suborder Notothenioidei (Perciformes)" "Journal of Ichthyology" 32: pp. 90–110] [Lecointre, G. "et al." (1997) "Molecular phylogeny of the Antarctic fishes: paraphyly of the Bovichitidae and no indication for the monophyly of the Notothenioidei (Teleostei)" "Polar Biology" 18: pp. 193–208]
Genera
There are ten species in three genera. In addition, the genus "Pseudaphritis" (Castelnau, 1872) has sometimes been included in this family. [Last, P. R.; Balushkin, A. V. and Hutchins, J. B. (May 2002) "Halaphritis platycephala" (Notothenioidei: Bovichtidae): A New Genus and Species of Temperate Icefish from Southeastern Australia" "Copeia" 2002(2): pp. 433-440, p. 433]
* Genus "
Bovichtus " Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1832
** "Bovichtus angustifrons " (Regan, 1913).
** "Bovichtus argentinus " (MacDonagh, 1931).
** "Bovichtus chilensis " (Regan, 1913).
** "Bovichtus diacanthus " (Carmichael, 1819).
** "Bovichtus oculus " Hardy, 1989.
** "Bovichtus psychrolutes " (Günther, 1860).
** "Bovichtus variegatus " thornfish Richardson, 1846.
** "Bovichtus veneris " (Sauvage, 1879).
* Genus "Cottoperca " Steindachner, 1876
** "Cottoperca gobio" (Günther, 1861) (synonym of "Cottoperca trigliodes " Forster, 1801 ) Cite web|url=http://research.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp|title=Catalog of Fishes|accessdate=2008-06-17|publisher=California Academy of Sciences - Ichthyology|year=2008]
* Genus "Halaphritis " Last, Balushkin and Hutchins, 2002
** "Halaphritis platycephala " Last, Balushkin & Hutchins, 2002.Notes
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