Table of Contents
51 relations: Acanthuriformes, Barton Warren Evermann, Beaumontoperca, Carl H. Eigenmann, Carl Linnaeus, Chattian, Cockerellites, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, David Starr Jordan, Dicentrarchus, Dorsal fin, Drepane (fish), Edward Drinker Cope, Eocene, Ephippidae, European seabass, Family (biology), Fish fin, Fish measurement, Fishes of the World, Glossary of ichthyology, Holocene, Ichthyology, Incertae sedis, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johann Julius Walbaum, Lateolabrax, Lateral line, Louis Agassiz, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Morone, Moroniformes, Oligocene, Operculum (fish), Order (biology), Percomorpha, Priabonian, Priscacara, Samuel L. Mitchill, Spotted seabass, Striped bass, Theodore Gill, White bass, White perch, Wreckfish, Yellow bass, Ypresian, 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 1877 in paleontology, 1936 in paleontology, ... Expand index (1 more) »
- Moroniformes
Acanthuriformes
Acanthuriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes, part of the Percomorpha clade. Moronidae and Acanthuriformes are taxa named by David Starr Jordan.
See Moronidae and Acanthuriformes
Barton Warren Evermann
Barton Warren Evermann (October 24, 1853 – September 27, 1932) was an American ichthyologist.
See Moronidae and Barton Warren Evermann
Beaumontoperca
Beaumontoperca is an extinct genus of freshwater or estuarine temperate bass known from Late Oligocene.
See Moronidae and Beaumontoperca
Carl H. Eigenmann
Carl Henry Eigenmann (March 9, 1863 – April 24, 1927) was a German-American ichthyologist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who, along with his wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann, and his zoology students is credited with identifying and describing for the first time 195 genera containing nearly 600 species of fishes of North America and South America.
See Moronidae and Carl H. Eigenmann
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
See Moronidae and Carl Linnaeus
Chattian
The Chattian is, in the geologic timescale, the younger of two ages or upper of two stages of the Oligocene Epoch/Series.
Cockerellites
Cockerellites is a genus of extinct temperate bass described from early Eocene-aged fossils found in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.
See Moronidae and Cockerellites
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (22 October 178318 September 1840) was a French early 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France.
See Moronidae and Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913.
See Moronidae and David Starr Jordan
Dicentrarchus
Dicentrarchus is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Moronidae, the temperate basses.
See Moronidae and Dicentrarchus
Dorsal fin
A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom.
Drepane (fish)
Drepane is a genus of marine and brackish water ray-finned fishes, known commonly as the sicklefishes. Moronidae and Drepane (fish) are Moroniformes.
See Moronidae and Drepane (fish)
Edward Drinker Cope
Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist.
See Moronidae and Edward Drinker Cope
Eocene
The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).
Ephippidae
Ephippidae is a family of percomorph fishes, the spadefishes, in the order Moroniformes. Moronidae and Ephippidae are Moroniformes.
European seabass
The European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax), also known as the branzino, European bass, sea bass, common bass, white bass, capemouth, white salmon, sea perch, white mullet, sea dace or loup de mer, is a primarily ocean-going fish native to the waters off Europe's western and southern and Africa's northern coasts, though it can also be found in shallow coastal waters and river mouths during the summer months and late autumn.
See Moronidae and European seabass
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
See Moronidae and Family (biology)
Fish fin
Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.
Fish measurement
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology.
See Moronidae and Fish measurement
Fishes of the World
Fishes of the World is a standard reference for the systematics of fishes.
See Moronidae and Fishes of the World
Glossary of ichthyology
This glossary of ichthyology is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in ichthyology, the study of fishes.
See Moronidae and Glossary of ichthyology
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Ichthyology
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha).
Incertae sedis
of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.
See Moronidae and Incertae sedis
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.
See Moronidae and Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Julius Walbaum
Johann Julius Walbaum (30 June 1724 – 21 August 1799) was a German physician, naturalist and fauna taxonomist.
See Moronidae and Johann Julius Walbaum
Lateolabrax
Lateolabrax is a genus of commercially important fishes known as the Asian seabasses.
Lateral line
The lateral line, also called the lateral line organ (LLO), is a system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.
See Moronidae and Lateral line
Louis Agassiz
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
See Moronidae and Louis Agassiz
Marcus Elieser Bloch
Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799) was a German physician and naturalist who is best known for his contribution to ichthyology through his multi-volume catalog of plates illustrating the fishes of the world.
See Moronidae and Marcus Elieser Bloch
Morone
Morone is a genus of temperate basses native to the Atlantic coast of North America and the freshwater systems of the midwestern and eastern United States.
Moroniformes
Moroniformes is an order of ray-finned fishes in the series Percomorpha.
See Moronidae and Moroniformes
Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
Operculum (fish)
The operculum is a series of bones found in bony fish and chimaeras that serves as a facial support structure and a protective covering for the gills; it is also used for respiration and feeding.
See Moronidae and Operculum (fish)
Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
See Moronidae and Order (biology)
Percomorpha
Percomorpha is a large clade of ray-finned fish with more than 17 000 known species that includes the tuna, seahorses, gobies, cichlids, flatfish, wrasse, perches, anglerfish, and pufferfish.
Priabonian
The Priabonian is, in the ICS's geologic timescale, the latest age or the upper stage of the Eocene Epoch or Series.
Priscacara
Priscacara, is a genus of extinct temperate bass described from Early to Middle Eocene fossils.
Samuel L. Mitchill
Samuel Latham Mitchill (August 20, 1764September 7, 1831) was an American physician, naturalist, and politician who lived in Plandome, New York.
See Moronidae and Samuel L. Mitchill
Spotted seabass
The spotted seabass (Dicentrarchus punctatus) is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Moronidae, the temperate basses.
See Moronidae and Spotted seabass
Striped bass
The striped bass (Morone saxatilis), also called the Atlantic striped bass, striper, linesider, rock, or rockfish, is an anadromous perciform fish of the family Moronidae found primarily along the Atlantic coast of North America.
See Moronidae and Striped bass
Theodore Gill
Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist, and librarian.
See Moronidae and Theodore Gill
White bass
The white bass, silver bass, or sand bass (Morone chrysops) is a freshwater fish of the temperate bass family Moronidae.
White perch
The white perch (Morone americana) is not a true perch but is a fish of the temperate bass family, Moronidae, notable as a food and game fish in eastern North America.
Wreckfish
The wreckfish are a family, Polyprionidae in the suborder Percoidei of the order Perciformes.
Yellow bass
The yellow bass (Morone mississippiensis) is a member of the family Moronidae. Moronidae and yellow bass are taxa named by David Starr Jordan.
Ypresian
In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene.
10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
See Moronidae and 10th edition of Systema Naturae
1877 in paleontology
O. W. Lucas collected the first remains of what would later in the year be named Laelaps trihedrodon from Quarry I of the Saurian Hill at Garden Park, Colorado.
See Moronidae and 1877 in paleontology
1936 in paleontology
Category:1930s in paleontology Paleontology 6.
See Moronidae and 1936 in paleontology
1977 in paleontology
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
See Moronidae and 1977 in paleontology
See also
Moroniformes
- Drepane (fish)
- Drepaneidae
- Ephippidae
- Moronidae
- Moroniformes
References
Also known as Moronid, Temperate bass.