Aplocheiloidei

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|6.1|0|Late Miocene to present}}

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| image2 = Austrolebias quirogai.jpg

| image2_caption = Austrolebias quirogai

| taxon = Aplocheiloidei

| authority = Parenti, 1981{{cite book | vauthors = Radda AC, Purzl E | year = 1987 | title = Colour Atlas of Cyprinodonts of the Rain Forests of Tropical Africa | url = http://www.killis.es/radda.pdf | publisher = Hofmann | page = 7}}

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Aplocheiloidei is a suborder of the order Cyprinodontiformes consisting of three families which are commonly known as killifishes.

Families

The three families within the suborder Aplocheiloidei are:{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |vauthors=Nelson JS, Grande TC, Wilson MV |year=2016 |pages=371 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2019-08-25 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Van Der Laan R, Eschmeyer WN, Fricke R | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 1–230 | date = November 2014 | pmid = 25543675 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | doi-access = free }}

The only known fossil member of the suborder is the Late Miocene-aged Kenyaichthys from the Lukeino Formation of Kenya, which is the only known member of the family Kenyaichthyidae Altner & Reichenbacher, 2015.{{Cite journal |last1=Altner |first1=Melanie |last2=Reichenbacher |first2=Bettina |date=2015-04-29 |title=†Kenyaichthyidae fam. nov. and †Kenyaichthys gen. nov. – First Record of a Fossil Aplocheiloid Killifish (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes) |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=e0123056 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0123056 |doi-access=free |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=4414574 |pmid=25923654|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1023056A }}

Proposed taxonomy

Some authorities have lumped the three families into a single family, Aplocheilidae, a well-established name, chosen for its stability in usage over time, and to avoid the impact of a new name at the family rank for a popular aquarium fish group. Under this proposal, the Aplocheilidae includes three subfamilies: Aplocheilinae for the species from Asia, Madagascar and the Seychelles; Cynolebiinae (called Rivulidae above) for the species from the Americas; and Nothobranchiinae for the species from the African mainland.{{cite journal | vauthors = Costa WJ | year = 2016 | url = http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/vertebratezoology/vz66-2/03_vertebrate_zoology_66-2_costa_125-140.pdf | title = Comparative morphology and classification of South American cynopoeciline killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheilidae), with notes on family-group names used for aplocheiloids. | journal =Vertebrate Zoology | volume = 66 | issue = 2 | pages = 125–140| doi = 10.3897/vz.66.e31538 | doi-access = free }}

File:Phylogenetic relationships among 13 taxa of the Cynopoecilini and four out-group taxa.PNG relationships among 13 taxa of the Cynopoecilini and four outgroup taxa{{cite journal | vauthors = Costa WJ | title = Inferring Evolution of Habitat Usage and Body Size in Endangered, Seasonal Cynopoeciline Killifishes from the South American Atlantic Forest through an Integrative Approach (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 11 | issue = 7 | pages = e0159315 | date = 2016-07-18 | pmid = 27428070 | pmc = 4948875 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0159315 | bibcode = 2016PLoSO..1159315C | doi-access = free }}]]

References

Category:Cyprinodontiformes

Category:Taxa named by Lynne R. Parenti