Antennarioidei

{{Short description|Suborder of fish}}

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| image = Antennarius pictus - Painted FrogFish.jpg

| image_caption = Painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus), the type species of the genus Antennarius.

| taxon = Antennarioidei

| authority = Regan, 1912{{cite journal |author=C. T. Regan |year=1912 |title=The classification of the teleostean fishes of the order Pediculati |journal=The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology |series=8 |volume=9 |pages=277–289 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18639034#page/289/mode/1up}}

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Antennarioidei is a suborder of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.

Taxonomy

Antennarioidei was first proposed as a taxonomic grouping in 1912 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this taxon as one of the five suborders in the order Lophiiformes. It and the suborders Chaunacoidei, Ogcocephaloidei, and Ceratioidei, are more derived than their basal sister group the Lophioidei.{{cite book |author1=Nelson, J.S. |author1-link=Joseph S. Nelson |author2=Grande, T.C. |author3=Wilson, M.V.H. |year=2016 |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |place=Hoboken, NJ |pages=508–518 |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |lccn=2015037522 |oclc=951899884 |ol=25909650M |doi=10.1002/9781119174844}} In some phylogenies the suborder Antennarioidei is the most basal of the Lophiiformes suborders other than Lophioidei.{{cite journal |author1=Masaki Miya |author2=Theodore W Pietsch |author2-link=Theodore Wells Pietsch III |author3=James W Orr |author4=Rachel J Arnold |author5=Takashi P Satoh |author6=Andrew M Shedlock |author7=Hsuan-Ching Ho |author8=Mitsuomi Shimazaki |author9=Mamoru Yabe |author10=Mutsumi Nishida |display-authors=3 |year=2010 |title=Evolutionary history of anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes): a mitogenomic perspective |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=10 |issue=58 |page=58 |doi=10.1186/1471-2148-10-58|doi-access=free |bibcode=2010BMCEE..10...58M |pmc=2836326 }}

The relationships of the suborders within Lophiiformes as set out in Pietsch and Grobecker's 1987 Frogfishes of the world: systematics, zoogeography, and behavioral ecology is shown below.

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|1=Lophioidei

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|1=Antennarioidei

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|1=Chaunacoidei

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|1=Ogcocephaloidei

|2=Ceratioidei

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File:Striped anglerfish ( Antennarius striatus ).jpg

Etymology

Antennarioidei is derived from Antennarius, the type genus of the family Antennaridae. Antennarius suffixes -ius to antenna, an allusion to first dorsal spine being adapted into a tentacle on the snout used as a lure to attract prey.{{cite web |url=https://etyfish.org/lophiiformes1/ |title=Order LOPHIIFORMES (part 1): Families LOPHIIDAE, ANTENNARIIDAE, TETRABRACHIIDAE, LOPHICHTHYIDAE, BRACHIONICHTHYIDAE, CHAUNACIDAE and OGCOCEPHALIDAE |author=Christopher Scharpf |date=14 November 2022 |access-date=6 March 2024 |work=The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database |publisher=Christopher Scharpf}}

Families

The following classification is recognized by Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes:{{Cite web |last=Fricke |first=R. |last2=Eschmeyer |first2=W. N. |last3=Van der Laan |first3=R. |date=2025 |title=ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION |url=https://www.calacademy.org/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes-classification |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=California Academy of Sciences |language=en}}

The cladogram below shows a past classification, prior to the recognition of several new families:{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 1–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}

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|label1=Antennarioidei

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|1=Brachionichthyidae Gill, 1863 (Handfishes or warty anglerfishes)

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|1={{clade

|1=Lophichthyidae Boeseman, 1964 (Lophichthyid frogfishes)

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|1=Tetrabrachiidae Regan, 1912 (Tetrabrachid frogfishes)

|2=Antennariidae Jarocki 1822 (Frogfishes)

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Characteristics

Antennarioidei fishes are characterised by the first dorsal fin being made up of three separate spines on the head, the first being the illicium with the second sometimes being short, although this spine is not everr embedded within the skin. The pterygiophores of the first dorsal spine and the third dorsal spine have highly compressed dorsal expansions. The interhyal has a central backwards directed process that touches the preoperculum.

Distribution

Antennarioidei fishes are found in the tropical and subtropical oceans of the world, although this applies only to the Antennaridae, the other three families being confined to the seas around Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia.

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