Zanclidae has the following taxa classified within it: • Genus
Zanclus Cuvier, 1831 • Species
Zanclus cornutus (
Linnaeus, 1758) (Moorish idol) • Genus
Massalongius Tyler and Bannikov,
2005 • Species
Massalongius gazolai (Massalongo, 1859) • Genus
Angiolinia Carnevale & Tyler, 2024 • Species
Angiolinia mirabilis Carnevale & Tyler, 2024 • Genus
Eozanclus Blot &
Voruz, 1975 • Species †
Eozanclus brevirostris (
Agassiz, 1835) ( means extinct)
Eozanclus brevirostris is an extinct species in the Zanclidae family that was first discovered by
Giovanni Serafino Volta in 1796. The species later received separate taxonomic status within the Zanclidae family through the description of Blot and Voruz in 1970 and 1975.
Angiolinia mirabilis is another extinct Zanclid that was described by Giorgio Carnevale and James C. Tyler in 2024 based on three specimens found in
Bolca, Italy. Carnevale & Tyler found that
Zanclus cornutus and
Angiolinia mirabilis form a derived clade distinguishable from
Eozanclus brevirostris by one supernumerary spine on the first dorsal-fin
pterygiophore, one
uroneural in the caudal skeleton, and distally filamentous dorsal-fin spines (except the first two fins). ==References==