Armorhead

Taxobox
name = Armorheads


image_caption = Longfin boarfish, "Zaclistius elevatus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Pentacerotidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision ="Evistias" "Histiopterus" "Parazanclistius" "Paristiopterus" "Pentaceropsis" "Pentaceros" "Pseudopentaceros" "Zanclistius" See text for species.
synonyms = "Histiopteridae"

The Armorheads are a small family, Pentacerotidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. They are native to the Indo-Pacific and southwestern Atlantic.

Their name, from Greek "pente" meaning "five" and "keras" meaning "horn", refers to the prominent sharp spines in their dorsal fin (though these do not number five in all species).

pecies

* Genus "Evistias" Jordan, 1907
** Striped boarfish, "Evistias acutirostris" (Temminck and Schlegel, 1844)
* Genus "Histiopterus" Temminck and Schlegel, 1844
** Sailfin armourhead, "Histiopterus typus" Temminck and Schlegel, 1844
* Genus "Parazanclistius" Hardy, 1983
** Short boarfish, "Parazanclistius hutchinsi" Hardy, 1983
* Genus "Paristiopterus" Bleeker, 1876
** Yellowspotted boarfish, "Paristiopterus gallipavo" Whitley, 1944
** Giant boarfish or common boarfish or sowfish, "Paristiopterus labiosus" (Günther, 1872)
* Genus "Pentaceropsis" Steindachner in Steindachner and Döderlein, 1883
** Longsnout boarfish, "Pentaceropsis recurvirostris" (Richardson, 1845)
* Genus "Pentaceros" Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1829
** Cape armourhead, "Pentaceros capensis" Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1829
** Bigspined boarfish, "Pentaceros decacanthus" Günther, 1859
** Japanese armorhead or Japanese boarfish, "Pentaceros japonicus" Steindachner, 1883
** "Pentaceros quinquespinis" Parin and Kotlyar, 1988
* Genus "Pseudopentaceros" Bleeker, 1876
** Pelagic armorhead, Pelagic armourhead, Richardson's boarfish, Southern boarfish, "Pseudopentaceros richardsoni" (Smith, 1844)
** Slender armorhead, "Pseudopentaceros wheeleri" Hardy, 1983
* Genus "Zanclistius" Jordan, 1907
** Longfin boarfish, "Zanclistius elevatus" (Ramsay and Ogilby, 1888)

References

*FishBase family|family=Pentacerotidae|year=2006|month=January