Antigonia rubescens
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| Antigonia rubescens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Caproidae |
| Genus: | Antigonia |
| Species: | A. rubescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Antigonia rubescens (Günther, 1860) | |
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Antigonia rubescens, the Indo-Pacific boarfish or sharpsnout deepsea boarfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Caproidae, the boarfishes. This fish is found in the Indo-West Pacific region.
Antigonia rubescens was first formally described as Hypsinotus rubescens in 1860 by the German-born British herpetologist and ichthyologist Albert Günther with its type locality given as Nagasaki.[2] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the genus Antigonia in the Antigoniinae, a subfamily of the Caproidae, within the order Caproiformes,[3] as do other authorities.[4] However, other authorities classify this taxon as a family, the Antigoniidae, and classify and the Caproidae in the order Acanthuriformes.[5]
Etymology
Antigonia rubescens has the genus name, Antigonia, and this was not explained by Lowe but it is probably a combination of anti, meaning "against", and goneos, which means "ancestor". This may be reference to how A. capros is so distinctive yet seems to elucidate the ancestry of relayed forms which Lowe felt were randomly classified before he described A. capros. The specific name, rubescens, means "reddish", Günther did not explain this but it is obviouslt a reference to the redish orange colour of this fish .[6]