anablepidae
{{Short description|Family of ray-finned fishes}}
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| image_caption = Four-eyed fish, Anableps sp.
| taxon = Anablepidae
| authority = Bonaparte, 1831{{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 = 001–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}
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Anablepidae is a family of ray-finned fishes which live in brackish and freshwater habitats from southern Mexico to southern South America.{{cite book | title = Fishes of the World | last = Nelson | first = Joseph, S. | publisher = John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | year = 2006 | isbn = 0-471-25031-7}} There are three genera with sixteen species: the four-eyed fishes (genus Anableps), the onesided livebearers (genus Jenynsia) and the white-eye, Oxyzygonectes dovii. Fish of this family eat mostly insects and other invertebrates.
Reproduction
Fish in the subfamily Oxyzygonectinae are ovoviviparous. The Anablepinae are livebearers. They mate on one side only, right-"handed" males with left-"handed" females and vice versa.{{cite web | url = http://www.wetwebmedia.com/BrackishSubWebIndex/anableps.htm | title = Four Eyes and More, the Family Anablepidae | publisher = WetWebMedia.com | accessdate = 2007-03-30}} The male has specialized anal rays which are greatly elongated and fused into a tube called a gonopodium associated with the sperm duct which he uses as an intromittent organ to deliver sperm to the female.
Subfamilies and genera
The family is divided into two subfamilies and three genera:{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=371 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2019-10-22 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cof family|family=Anablepidae|access-date=22 October 2019}}
References
- {{FishBase family | family = Anablepidae | month = August | year = 2012}}
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=Other References=
- Berra, Tim M. (2001). Freshwater Fish Distribution. San Diego: Academic Press. {{ISBN|0-12-093156-7}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181153/http://www3.sympatico.ca/tp.bridges/anableps2p1.html Anableps anableps]
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Category:Freshwater fish of Central America
Category:Freshwater fish of South America
Category:Freshwater fish of Mexico
Category:Marine fauna of North America
Category:Marine fauna of South America
Category:Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
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