Galeichthys Valenciennes, 1840

MP 100, BI 1, ML 100

(Figs 1–3, 4A – 5)

Type species: Galeichthys feliceps Valenciennes, 1840 .

Diagnosis

That of the Galeichthyinae, above.

Included species

Galeichthys ater Castelnau, 1861

Galeichthys feliceps Valenciennes, 1840

Galeichthys peruvianus Lütken, 1874

Galeichthys trowi Kulongowski, 2010 *.

Remarks

Total-evidence analysis corroborated previous morphological (Marceniuk and Menezes 2007, Marceniuk et al. 2012) and molecular (Betancur-R.2009) studiesregardingthemonophylyandrelationship of the genus. Supported by morphological and molecular data, Betancur-R. et al. (2007) had the same interpretation of the phylogenetic relationship of Galeichthys, examining only Galeichthys ater and Galeichthys peruvianus, whereas Kailola (2004), based only on morphological evidence, recognized the same species composition, but with a unique hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships.

Habitat and distribution: Marine, southern Africa, and north-western coast of South America (Fig. 4).