Empetrichthyinae Explained

Empetrichthyinae is a subfamily of fishes, one of two subfamilies that make up the family Goodeidae.^[1]

The earliest fossil empetrichthyine is Empetrichthys erdisi from the Miocene or Pliocene of California.^{[2] [3]}

Genera

There are two genera within the subfamily Empetrichthyinae:^[1]

• Crenichthys Hubbs, 1932
• Empetrichthys Gilbert, 1893

Notes and References

1. Book: Fishes of the World . 5th . J. S. Nelson . T. C. Grande . M. V. H. Wilson . 2016 . 373 . Wiley . 978-1-118-34233-6 . 2019-09-17 . 2019-04-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ . dead .
2. Webb . Shane A. . Graves . Jefferson A. . Macias-Garcia . Constantino . Magurran . Anne E. . Foighil . Diarmaid Ó . Ritchie . Michael G. . 2004-03-01 . Molecular phylogeny of the livebearing Goodeidae (Cyprinodontiformes) . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 30 . 3 . 527–544 . 10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00257-4 . 1055-7903.
3. Jimenez . Miguel . Goodchild . Shawn C. . Stockwell . Craig A. . Lema . Sean C. . 2017-08-30 . Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes for two desert cyprinodontoid fishes, Empetrichthys latos and Crenichthys baileyi . Gene . 626 . 163–172 . 10.1016/j.gene.2017.05.023 . 0378-1119.