Boarfishes
Temporal range:
Deepbody boarfish, Antigonia capros
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Caproiformes
Family: Caproidae
Bonaparte, 1835
Genera[1]

Caproidae, or boarfishes, are a small family of marine fishes comprising two genera and 12 species. They were formerly placed in the order Zeiformes with the dories, but were later moved to Perciformes based on percoid characteristics of the caudal skeleton and other morphological evidence.[2] More recent revisions of Percomorpha have seen them placed in Caproiformes[2][3] or Acanthuriformes.[4][5] Boarfishes are native to the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans, where they are mainly found at depths below 50 m (160 ft).

Boarfishes have deep and thin bodies. They are small, with only a few species known to reach a maximum total length of 30 cm (12 in). Their coloration is red, pink, and silvery.

The earliest identified caproid fossils date to the middle Eocene epoch of the early Tertiary period, or roughly 48.6 to 40 million years ago.

See also

  • Some fish of the family Pentacerotidae (order Perciformes) are also called boarfish.

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Caproidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  2. 1 2 Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 507. ISBN 9781118342336.
  3. ↑ Betancur-R, Ricardo; Wiley, Edward O.; Arratia, Gloria; Acero, Arturo; Bailly, Nicolas; Miya, Masaki; Lecointre, Guillaume; Ortí, Guillermo (2017). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 162. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 5501477. PMID 28683774.
  4. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  5. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Caproidae". Fishbase. Retrieved 18 July 2023.


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