Classis : Actinopterygii 
Ordo : Perciformes 
Subordo : Gobioidei 
Familia : Xenisthmidae 

Xenisthmidae sunt familia piscium ordinis Perciformium, in oceanis Indico et Pacifico endemicorum, ubi ei in scopulis habitant. Species sunt praedatoriae et hominibus aliquantulum minantur.

Sunt novem species in sex genera digestae:

  • Allomicrodesmus dorotheae Schultz, 1966[1]
  • Genus Tyson Springer, 1983
  1. Schultz, L.P. (1966). Schultz, L.P.; Woods, L.P.; Lachner, E. A.. eds (Print). Order Percomorphida. Suborder Gobiina. Superfamily Gobioidea.. In Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands. 3. Families Kraemeridae through Antennariidae. United States: United States National Museum Bulletin. pp. 1–176 
  2. Gill, Anthony C.; Hoese, Douglass F. (1993). "Paraxenisthmus springeri, New Genus and Species of Gobioid Fish from the West Pacific, and Its Phylogenetic Position within the Xenisthmidae". Copeia 1993 (4): 1049–1057 
  3. Springer, V.G. (1988). "Rotuma lewisi, new genus and species of fish from the southwest Pacific (Gobioidei, Xenisthmidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (Biological Society of Washington) 101 (3): 530–539 
  4. Springer, V.G. (1983). "Tyson Belos, New Genus and Species of Western Pacific Fish (Gobiidae, Xenisthminae) : With Discussions of Gobioid Osteology and Classification". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (Smithsonian Institution Press) 390: 1–40 .
  5. Smith, J. L. B. (1958). "The fishes of the family Eleotridae in the western Indian Ocean". Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology (J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology) 11: 137–163 .
  6. Gill, Anthony C.; Randall, J.E. (1994). "Xenisthmus balius, a new species of fish from the Persian Gulf (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (Biological Society of Washington) 107 (3): 445–450 .
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gill, Anthony C.; Hoese, Douglass F. (2004). "Three New Australian Species of the Fish Genus Xenisthmus (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae)". Records of the Australian Museum (The Australian Museum) 56: 241–246 .
  8. Jordan, D.S.; Seale, A. (1994). "he fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania". Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries 25 .
 
Perciformes

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