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Menidae (moonfish)
Taxonomy
Menidae was named by Gill (1885). It is extant.
It was assigned to Carangiformes by Jordan (1963); to Carangimorphariae by Betancur et al. (2013); to Perciformes by Danil'chenko (1980) and Carnevale et al. (2014); to Percoidei by Patterson (1964), Friedman and Johnson (2005) and Bannikov (2014); and to Carangiformes by Nelson et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Carangiformes by Jordan (1963); to Carangimorphariae by Betancur et al. (2013); to Perciformes by Danil'chenko (1980) and Carnevale et al. (2014); to Percoidei by Patterson (1964), Friedman and Johnson (2005) and Bannikov (2014); and to Carangiformes by Nelson et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1885 | Menidae Gill |
1963 | Menidae Jordan p. 685 |
1964 | Menidae Patterson p. 423 |
1980 | Menidae Danil'chenko p. 129 |
2005 | Menidae Friedman and Johnson p. 771 |
2013 | Menidae Betancur et al. |
2014 | Menidae Bannikov p. 28 |
2014 | Menidae Carnevale et al. p. 42 |
2016 | Menidae Nelson et al. p. 387 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Menidae Gill 1885 [moonfish]
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G. Mene Lacépède 1803
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†Mene oblonga Agassiz 1833
Mene psarianosi Symeonidis 1969
†Mene purdyi Friedman and Johnson 2005
†Mene rhombea Volta 1796
†Mene triangulum Danil'chenko 1968
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available