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{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{other uses|Mene (disambiguation)}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Razor Moonfish, 261台灣宜蘭縣頭城鎮大溪漁港 imported from iNaturalist photo 138975439.png | image_caption = ''Mene maculata'' | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|58.7|0}} Thanetian to Present<ref>{{cite journal |last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2007-12-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref> | display_parents = 2 | parent_authority = Fitzinger, 1873 | taxon = Mene | authority = Lacépède, 1803 | synonyms = * ''Meneus'' <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small> * ''Gasteronemus'' <small>Agassiz, 1833</small> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''Mene maculata'' *{{extinct}}''Mene rhombea'' *{{extinct}}''Mene purdyi'' *{{extinct}}''Mene oblonga'' *{{extinct}}''Mene phosphatica'' *{{extinct}}''Mene triangulum'' *{{extinct}}''Mene novaehispaniae'' *{{extinct}}?''Mene kapurdiensis'' }}

The moonfish of the genus '''''Mene''''', the sole extant genus of the family '''Menidae''', are disk-shaped fish which bear a vague resemblance to gourami, thanks to their lateral compression and thread-like pelvic fins. Today, the genus is represented only by ''Mene maculata'' of the Indo-Pacific, where it is a popular food fish, especially in the Philippines, where it is known as ''bilong-bilong'', ''chabita'', ''hiwas'' or ''tahas''.<ref>Small-scale fisheries of San Miguel Bay, Philippines: options for management and research. {{ISBN|971-10-2208-7}}.</ref>

==Taxonomy== Anatomical and recent molecular studies strongly suggest a relationship with the pomfrets, dolphinfishes, remoras and the jacks in the order Carangiformes.<ref name="Nelson5">{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=380 |publisher=Wiley |ISBN= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }}</ref>

===Fossil record=== As a genus, ''Mene'' has a long fossil history, with species found in marine sediments throughout the Cenozoic Era.<ref>Matt Friedman, and G. David Johnson. “A New Species of Mene (Perciformes: Menidae) from the Paleocene of South America, with Notes on Paleoenvironment and a Brief Review of Menid Fishes.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 25, no. 4, 2005, pp. 770–83. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4524505.</ref> The earliest accepted species, ''M. purdyi'' from the Paleocene of Peru, resemble later species, such as ''M. rhombea'' of the Monte Bolca lagerstätte, and even the living species, ''M. maculata''. Experts remain undecided whether the Tunisian species, ''M. phosphatica'' is from the Lower Paleocene, thus making it older than ''M. purdyi'', or whether it is from the Ypresian epoch of the Eocene. Almost all of the species are known primarily from the Paleogene; the Neogene record is rather sparse, if not totally nonexistent, with some otoliths found in Miocene strata, and no whole or even partial specimens known from Pliocene or Pleistocene strata.

The first species of the genus to be described was not the extant ''M. maculata'', but rather the extinct fossil species ''Mene rhombea''; however, ''M. rhombea'' was not initially classified in ''Mene'', with the genus name being coined for the extant species.<ref name="Nelson5" />

<gallery mode="packed" heights="100"> File:Mene rhombea and Mene oblonga.jpg|Restoration comparing {{extinct}}''Mene rhombea'' and {{extinct}}''Mene oblonga'' File:Mene oblonga 443.JPG|{{extinct}}''Mene oblonga'' File:Menidae - Mene rhombea 001.jpg|{{extinct}}''Mene rhombea'', from Monte Bolca File:Mene sp. from the Early Eocene Denmark.jpg|{{extinct}}''Mene sp'', from Fur Formation, Denmark File:Mene oblonga MCZ.jpg|{{extinct}}''Mene oblonga'' from Monte Bolca </gallery>

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==External links== *[http://si-pddr.si.edu/jspui/bitstream/10088/9752/1/vz_05Friedman_Johnson_Mene.pdf "A new species of Mene (Perciformes: Menidae) from the Paleocene of South America, with notes on paleoenvironment and a brief review of menid fishes."]

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