Caproidae

Boarfish ( Capros aper )

The Eberfische ( Caproidae ) are bony fish with a high, laterally compressed body, far vorstreckbarem mouth and mostly big eyes, which mostly live in deeper areas of the high seas. The usually red or pink animals live in the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.

They differ from the ( earlier than closely related respected ) Peter Fishing ( Zeidae ) by a bony ridge on the occiput. When prey evert Eberfische her mouth before very far. This requires that the head with the back muscles which are attached to this occipital bar to be raised.

The boar fish ( Capros aper ), who lives in the eastern Atlantic from Norway to Senegal, and in the Mediterranean is more than 30 centimeters, the largest species of the genus and only Capros. In the Gulf of Naples, he is caught at depths of 100 meters. The members of the genus Antigonia are only 5 to 15 inches long.

They are known fossil since the middle Oligocene, the middle stage of tertiary millions before 20 to 30 years.

System

The Eberfische were formerly classed as Peter Fishy. Nelson puts the Perciformes, in their own subordination Caproidei, Ricardo Betancur -R. and colleagues within the perch relatives with uncertain systematic position ( incertae sedis ). There are two genera, Antigonia with eleven species and the monotypic Capros.

• Antigonia Antigonia aurorosea Parin & Borodulina, 1986.
• Antigonia combatia Berry & Rathjen, 1959.
• Antigonia eos Gilbert, 1905.
• Antigonia indica Parin & Borodulina, 1986.
• Antigonia malayana Weber, 1913.
• Antigonia rhomboidea McCulloch, 1915.
• Antigonia rubescens ( Günther, 1860).
• Antigonia rubicunda Ogilby, 1910.
• Antigonia saya Parin & Borodulina, 1986.
• Antigonia xenolepis Parin & Borodulina, 1986.

• Boarfish ( Capros aper ) (Linnaeus, 1758).