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Topic: Pantodontidae


  
  Osteoglossomorpha
Exclusively freshwater fishes at least in the modern fauna, they display interesting biogeographic distributions including apparent examples of endemism of extant suprageneric taxa (Hiodontidae in North America, Mormyroidea and Pantodontidae in Africa), as well as circumtropical or old-world tropical distributions (Osteoglossidae and Notopteroidea).
With regard to the fossil record, Eocene-age fossil members of genera now included in Osteoglossidae have been known for more than a century (Leidy 1873).
Ridewood, W. On the cranial osteology of the fishes of the families Osteoglossidae, Pantodontidae, and Phractolaemidae.
tolweb.org /tree?group=Osteoglossomorpha&contgroup=Teleostei   (2085 words)

  
 Bonytongues, elephantfishes, etc. (Osteoglossiformes) - MavicaNET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Defining charaters: Gut coiling pattern, anterior part of gut passes to the left of esophagus and stomach (right in both nonteleosts and other teleosts); premaxilla firmly fixed to skull; bite between basihyal teeth and endopterygoid.
List of families: Osteoglossidae [osteoglossids or bonytongues], Pantodontidae [butterflyfish, Hiodontidae [mooneyes], Notopteridae [featherfin knifefishes or Old World knif], Mormyridae [elephantfishes], Gymnarchidae [gymnarchids].
List of families: Osteoglossidae, Pantodontidae, Notopteroidea, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae.
www.mavicanet.com /directory/pol/21621.html   (73 words)

  
 Pantadon Butterfly Fish
One title the Butterfly Fish can certainly lay claim to is that it is unique.
Pantodon buchholzi is the only species in the genus, and the genus Pantodon is the only one in the family Pantodontidae.
The upturned mouth tells us that it is a surface feeder, and the size of the mouth is an indication that not only mosquitoes and flies but also larger beetles and the like can be handled with ease.
www.brooklands.co.nz /tropical/pantadon.htm   (212 words)

  
 Other Fish Species
There are numerous other families that do not fit in the previous categories.
Included in this section are the families Belonidae, Channidae, Gobiidae, Mormyridae, Pantodontidae, Polypteridae, Syngnathidae, and Tetraodontidae.
The copy for fish.mongabay.com was written in 1994-1995.
fish.mongabay.com /others.htm   (74 words)

  
 Butterflyfish- Jan 2003
Must be kept in a totally covered aquarium.
The Butterflyfish, Pantodon buchholzi is the only species in the genus, and the genus Pantodon is the only one in the family Pantodontidae.
The upturned mouth tells us it’s a surface feeder and the size of the mouth tells us it will eat more then just insects that land on the water surface.
www.brooklynaquariumsociety.org /Articles/2003-jan-pg24.htm   (697 words)

  
 ORDER IV - Online Information article about ORDER IV
Fine without spines, the ventrals abdominal (rarely absent).
Families: Pholidophoridae, Archaeomenidae, Oligopleuridae, Leptolepidae, Elopidae, Albulidae, Mormyridae, Hyodontidae, Notopteridae, Osteoglossidae, Pantodontidae, Ctenothrissidae, Phractolaemidae, Saurodontidae, Chirocentridae, Clupeidae, Chanidae, Salmonidae, Alepocephalidae, Stomiatidae, Gonorhynchidae, Cromeriidae.
Unquestionably the most generalized sub-order, having most incommon with the Holostean ganoids.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /ORC_PAI/ORDER_IV.html   (2155 words)

  
 FishBase Glossary Searched Term   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Fishes of the Family Pantodontidae, Order Osteoglossiformes (bony tongues).
See FishBase for more information on this Family.
Poissons de la famille des Pantodontidae, ordre des Osteoglossiformes.
www.fishbase.org /larvalbase/Glossary/Glossary.cfm?TermEnglish=Butterflyfish   (42 words)

  
 Osteoglossiforms
Numerous other internal characteristics tie together the six families, and 29 genera of about 217 species of osteoglossiform fishes; we will list all the family groups here though only covering the two in depth.
Most of the "other" bony-tongue fish families should be familiar to you; the one species of freshwater butterflyfish, Pantodon buchholzi, Family Pantodontidae; the elephantfishes like the baby whale and elephantnose, Family Mormyridae, with a surprisingly large number of 18 genera and 198 species; the monotypic Family Gymnarchidae, with the lone species Gymnarchus niloticus.
Only the systematic aquarists and freshwater fishermen of North America will know the two species of mooneyes, Family Hiodontidae.
www.wetwebmedia.com /FWSubWebIndex/osteoglossiforms.htm   (2846 words)

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