Chanidae

Not to be confused with Channidae.

Chanidae Temporal range: Berriasian–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Chanos chanos
110 million year old fossil †Dastilbe from Brazil
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gonorynchiformes
Family:	Chanidae Günther, 1868[1]
Type genus
Chanos Lacepède, 1803[2]
Subfamilies
†Rubiesichthyinae Chaninae

Chanidae is a family of fishes which has a number of fossil genera and one monotypic extant genus which contains the milkfish (Chanos chanos).[3]

Taxonomy

The family Chanidae is subdivided into two subfamilies, Rubiesichthyinae and Chaninae.[4]^[page needed]

• †Cabindachanos Taverne et al. 2019 - Paleocene[5]
• ?†Coelogaster Eastman, 1905 [Coelogaster Agassiz 1835 nomen nudum ; Coelogaster Eastman 1905 non Schrank 1780 non Schoenherr 1837 non Schultze 1896 ; Ptericephalina Lioy 1866; †Eucoelogaster White & Moy-Thomas 1940] - Early Eocene[6]
• Subfamily †Rubiesichthyinae Poyata-Ariza 1996
  • Genus †Gordichthys Poyata-Ariza 1994 - Early Cretaceous
  • Genus †Nanaichthys Amaral & Brito 2012
  • Genus †Rubiesichthys Wenz 1984 - Early Cretaceous
• Subfamily Chaninae
  • Genus †Aethalionopsis Gaudant 1966 - Early Cretaceous[7]
  • Genus †Caeus Costa 1860 - Early Cretaceous[8]
  • Genus Chanos Lacépède 1803 - Eocene to present
  • Genus †Dastilbe D. S. Jordan 1910 - Early Cretaceous
  • Genus †Francischanos Ribeiro et al. 2022 - Early Cretaceous[9]
  • Genus †Parachanos Arambourg & Schneegans 1935 - Early Cretaceous
  • Genus †Tharrhias D. S. Jordan & Branner 1908 - Early Cretaceous
  • Genus †Vango Murray et al. 2023 - Late Cretaceous[10]

References

1. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Chanidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
3. R. Froese; D. Pauly, eds. (2017). "Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775) Milkfish". Fishbase. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
4. Nelson, Joseph S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
5. Taverne, Louis; Putter, Thierry DE; Mees, Florias; Smith, Thierry (2019-01-01). "Cabindachanos dartevellei gen. and sp. nov., a new chanid fish (Ostariophysi, Gonorynchiformes) from the marine Paleocene of Cabinda (Central Africa)". Geologica Belgica. 22 (1–2): 1–6. doi:10.20341/gb.2018.011. ISSN 1374-8505.
6. Fara, Emmanuel; Gayet, Mireille; Taverne, Louis (2010). "The Fossil Record of Gonorynchiformes". In Grande, Terry; Poyato-Ariza, Francisco José; Diogo, Rui (eds.). Gonorynchiformes and Ostariophysan Relationships: A Comprehensive Review. CRC Press. pp. 173–226. doi:10.1201/b10194-6. ISBN 978-0-429-06156-1.
7. Poyato-Ariza, Francisco José; Grande, Terry; Diogo, Rui (2010). "Gonorynchiform Interrelationships: Historic Overview, Analysis, and Revised Systematics of the Group". In Grande, Terry; Poyato-Ariza, Francisco José; Diogo, Rui (eds.). Gonorynchiformes and Ostariophysan Relationships: A Comprehensive Review. CRC Press. pp. 227–337. doi:10.1201/b10194-7. ISBN 978-0-429-06156-1.
8. Taverne, Louis; Capasso, Luigi (2017). "Osteology and relationships of Caeus ("Chanos") leopoldi (Teleostei , Gonorynchiformes , Chanidae) from the marine Albian (Early Cretaceous) of Pietraroja (Campania , southern Italy)" (PDF). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Geologia Paleontologia Preistoria. 41: 3–20. S2CID 52025491. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
9. Ribeiro, Alexandre C.; Bockmann, Flávio A.; Poyato-Ariza, Francisco J. (2022-07-01). "Francischanos, a replacement genus for Dastilbe moraesi Silva-Santos, 1955, from the Quiricó Formation, Lower Cretaceous of the Sanfranciscana basin, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Gonorynchiformes)". Cretaceous Research. 135: 105212. Bibcode:2022CrRes.13505212R. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105212. ISSN 0195-6671.
10. Murray, Alison M.; Brinkman, Donald B.; Friedman, Matt; Krause, David W. (2023-10-17). "A large, freshwater chanid fish (Ostariophysi: Gonorynchiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 43 (2). doi:10.1080/02724634.2023.2255630. ISSN 0272-4634.