The longfins, also known as roundheads or spiny basslets, are a family, Plesiopidae, which were formerly placed in the order Perciformes or considered indeterminate percomorphs, but are now considered basal blenniiforms. They are elongated fishes, found in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
Classification
In some classifications, the genus Notograptus is split in its own family, Notograptidae, but FishBase is followed here. There are two subfamilies within the Plesiopidae and the genera are as follows:
- Subfamily Acanthoclininae <small>Günther, 1861</small>
- Genus Acanthoclinus <small>Jenyns, 1841</small>
- Genus Acanthoplesiops <small>Regan, 1912</small>
- Genus Beliops <small>Hardy, 1985</small>
- Genus Belonepterygion <small>McCulloch, 1915</small>
- Genus Notograptus <small>Günther, 1867</small>
- Subfamily Plesiopinae <small>Günther, 1861</small>
- Genus Assessor <small>Whitley, 1935</small>
- Genus Calloplesiops <small>Fowler and Bean, 1930</small>
- Genus Fraudella <small>Whitley, 1935</small>
- Genus Paraplesiops <small>Bleeker, 1875</small>
- Genus Plesiops <small>Oken, 1817</small>
- Genus Steeneichthys <small>Gerald R. Allen and Randall, 1985</small>
- Genus Trachinops <small>Günther, 1861</small>
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