Oceanic basslets

{{Short description|Family of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|34|0|Late Eocene-present}} | image = Howella brodiei (Pelagic basslet).gif | image_caption = ''Howella brodiei'' | taxon = Howellidae | authority = Ogilby, 1899<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 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision_ref = <ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase family | family = Howellidae | month = December| year = 2019}}</ref> | subdivision = See text }}

The '''oceanic basslets''' are ray-finned fish that belong to the small family '''Howellidae''' within the order Acropomatiformes. The family includes about 9 species. They are mostly deep-water species, some of which move to shallower waters at night. Various species are found in the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, including the Coral Sea, and Atlantic Ocean, including the Caribbean Sea.<ref>[http://www.animalspot.net/basslet.html "Basslets" at AnimalSpot web site] Retrieved February 4, 2015.</ref>

==Genera== The following three genera are classified as part of the Howellidae:<ref name = Fishbase/><ref name = CofF>{{Cof family | family = Howellidae| access-date = 26 February 2019}}</ref>

* ''Bathysphyraenops'' Parr, 1933 * ''Howella'' Ogilby, 1899 * ''Pseudohowella'' Fedoryako, 1976 The potential fossil genus ''Praegaleagra'' David, 1946 is known from isolated scales from the Late Eocene of California.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=David |first=Lorre R. |date=1946 |title=Some Typical Upper Eogene Fish Scales from California |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/v03cm-86s21 |journal=Contributions to Paleontology |volume=IV}}</ref>

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==Further reading== {{Wikispecies|Howellidae}} *Prokofiev, A. M. (2007). [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0032945207080036#page-1 The osteology of ''Bathysphyraenops symplex'' and the diagnosis of the Howellidae (Perciformes: Percoidei) family.] ''Journal of Ichthyology'' 47(8), 566–578.

Category:Howellidae Category:Taxa named by James Douglas Ogilby