Banjos (fish)

{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Banjos banjos.jpg | image_caption = ''Banjos banjos'' | display_parents = 3 | parent_authority = D.S. Jordan and W.F. Thompson, 1912<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | taxon = Banjos | authority = Bleeker, 1876<ref name = CofFG>{{Cof record|genid=3837|title=''Banjos''|access-date=18 May 2020}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = see text | synonyms={{genus list|Anoplus|Temminck & Schlegel, 1843}} | synonyms_ref=<ref name = M&M/> | type_species=''Anoplus banjos'' | type_species_authority=Richardson, 1846 }} '''''Banjos''''' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, the only genus in the monotypic family '''Banjosidae''', which is part of the order Acropomatiformes.<ref name = "ECoF">{{cite journal |title=Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification - California Academy of Sciences |journal=www.calacademy.org |url=https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/catalog-of-fishes-classification/ |access-date=11 November 2024 |language=en}}</ref> They are native to the western Indian and the Atlantic coasts of Africa,<ref name=Fishbase/> and is made up of the three species of banjofishes.<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase genus | genus = Banjos | month = December | year = 2019}}</ref>

==Species== Banjos have three currently recognised species:<ref name = Fishbase/><ref name = M&M>{{cite journal | author1 = Mizuki Matsunuma | author2 = Hiroyuki Motomura | name-list-style = amp | year = 2017 | title = Review of the genus Banjos (Perciformes: Banjosidae) with descriptions of two new species and a new subspecies | journal = Ichthyological Research | volume = 64 | issue = 3 | pages = 265–294 | doi = 10.1007/s10228-016-0569-9 | s2cid = 5630490 | url = https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10228-016-0569-9| url-access = subscription }} Abstract</ref>

* ''Banjos aculeatus'' Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Eastern Australian banjofish) * ''Banjos banjos'' (John Richardson, 1846) (Banjofish) * ''Banjos peregrinus'' Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 (Timor Sea banjofish)

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Category:Banjosidae Category:Actinopterygii genera Category:Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker