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Megalopidae
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Dataset
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GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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Rank
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FAMILY
Classification
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kingdom
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Animalia
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phylum
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Chordata
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order
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Elopiformes
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family
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Megalopidae
Name
- Synonyms
- Sedenhorstiidae
- Homonyms
- Megalopidae
- Common names
- sábalos in Spanish
- tarpons in French
- tarpons in English
- tarpons in language.
- tarpons in English
- イセゴイ科 in Japanese
Bibliographic References
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Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
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Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
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Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
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FishBase
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Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2022). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2022.
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Haworth, A.H. (1825). A new binary arrangement of the macrurous Crustacea. <em>Philosophical Magazine and Journal.</em> 65(323): 183-184.
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Matsuura, Keiichi, 2014: Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review. Ichthyological Research, vol. 62, no. 1. 72-113.
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Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
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Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
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Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
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Smith, D. G. / Carpenter, Kent E., and Volker H. Niem, eds., 1999: Megalopidae: Tarpons. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes: The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific, vol. 3: Batoid fishes, chimaeras and Bony fishes, part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). 1621-1622.
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Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.
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van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374