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Pholidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Perciformes
family
Pholidae

Name

Synonyms
Pholididae
Homonyms
Pholidae
Common names
Gunnels in English
Tangsprælfamilien in Danish
espinosos de marea in Spanish
gunnels in English
gunnels in English
sigouines in French
teistit in Finnish
tangsprellfamilien in Nynorsk, Norwegian
tangsprellfamilien in Norwegian Bokmål
tejstefiskar in Swedish
gunnels in English
tangsprellfamilien in Nynorsk, Norwegian
tangsprellfamilien in Norwegian Bokmål
ニシキギンポ科 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. (2010) Catalog of Fishes electronic version (15 January 2010).
  2. (2014) The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands.
  3. (2020) Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes
  4. CoL2006/FishBase
  5. CoL2006/FishBase
  6. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  7. FishBase
  8. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
  9. Froese & Pauly (2016) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication
  10. IRMNG (2015) IRMNG - Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera v.3.1.
  11. MarBEF (2017) ERMS taxon search
  12. Mecklenberg, Catherine W., 2003: Family Pholidae Gill 1893: gunnels. Annotated Checklists of Fishes, no. 9. 1-11.
  13. Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
  14. Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.
  15. Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.
  16. 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
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