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:12
- Aplocheilidae Bleeker, 1859
- Nothobranchiidae Garman, 1895
- Rivulidae Myers, 1925
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, 2015.3
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.4 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.5
References
Nelson JS, Grande TC, Wilson MV (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 371. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-08-25. 978-1-118-34233-6 ↩
Van Der Laan R, Eschmeyer WN, Fricke R (November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675. https://doi.org/10.11646%2Fzootaxa.3882.1.1 ↩
Altner, Melanie; Reichenbacher, Bettina (2015-04-29). "†Kenyaichthyidae fam. nov. and †Kenyaichthys gen. nov. – First Record of a Fossil Aplocheiloid Killifish (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes)". PLOS ONE. 10 (4): e0123056. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1023056A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123056. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4414574. PMID 25923654. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4414574 ↩
Van Der Laan R, Eschmeyer WN, Fricke R (November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675. https://doi.org/10.11646%2Fzootaxa.3882.1.1 ↩
Costa WJ (2016). "Comparative morphology and classification of South American cynopoeciline killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheilidae), with notes on family-group names used for aplocheiloids" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 66 (2): 125–140. doi:10.3897/vz.66.e31538. http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/vertebratezoology/vz66-2/03_vertebrate_zoology_66-2_costa_125-140.pdf ↩