Family PERRYENIDAE

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• Perryenidae Honma, Imamura & Kawai, 2012.

Introduction

The Perryenidae comprises Perryena leucometopon (Waite 1922), a rare scorpaenid endemic to southern Australia. The species has a compressed scaleless body tapering to a moderately narrow caudal peduncle, a long narrow snout with a small mouth at the tip, wide gill openings with gill membranes free from the isthmus, two preopercular spines, a long-based dorsal fin originating above the eye, a short-based anal fin and large pectoral and pelvic fins. Little is known of the species; it attains a length of 16 cm.

Honma et al. (2013) erected the monotypic family Perryenidae based on an osteological and myological study of Perryena leucometopon. Ishii & Imamura (2008) in a study of congiopodid phylogenetic relationships had suggested that Perryena was not closely related to the Congiopodidae. Previously, most authors (Paxton et al. 1989; Gomon et al. 1994; Paxton et al. 2006; Gomon 2008) followed Whitley's (1940) original placement of the genus Perryena in the family Congiopodidae. Mandrytsa (2001), however, placed Perryena in the family Tetrarogidae, based mostly on radiographs of misidentified specimens of Congiopodus leucopaecilus (see Honma et al. 2013).

General References

Gomon, M.F. 1994. Families Hoplichthyidae, Congiopodidae. pp. 524-526 figs 466-467 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [526]

Gomon, M.F. 2008. Family Congiopodidae: Pigfishes, Horsefishes. pp. 507 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [507]

Honma, Y., Imamura, H. & Kawai, T. 2013. Description of the genus Perryena, and proposal to erect a new family for it based on its phylogenetic relationships with related taxa (Scorpaeniformes). Ichthyological Research published online 19 January 2013, DOI 10.1007/s10228-012-0321-z.

Ishii, N. & Imamura, H. 2008. Phylogeny of the family Congiopodidae (Perciformes: Scorpaenoidea), with a proposal of new classification. Ichthyological Research 55(2): 148–161 [160]

Mandrytsa, S.A. 2001. Lateral Line System and Classification of Scorpaenoid Fishes (Scorpeaniformes: Scorpaenidei). Perm : Perm State Univ. Press pp. 1-393. [278]

Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E., Bray, D.J. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Congiopodidae. pp. 907-908 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [908]

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [475]

Whitley, G.P. 1940. Illustrations of some Australian fishes. The Australian Zoologist 9(4): 397-428 figs 1-45 pls 30-31 [428]

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