The armored searobins, or armored gurnards are a family, Peristediidae, of scorpaeniform fish

Fish

Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

es. They are found in deep tropical waters around the world. They are related to the searobins in the family Triglidae — and some authorities classify them in that family — but they are encased in heavy scales with prominent spines. They have prominent and often elaborate barbel

Barbel (anatomy)

A barbel on a fish is a slender, whiskerlike tactile organ near the mouth. Fish that have barbels include the catfish, the carp, the goatfish, sturgeon, the zebrafish and some species of shark...

s on their chins.

Species

There are 46 species in five genera:

• Genus Gargariscus
  • Gargariscus prionocephalus (Duméril
    André Marie Constant Duméril
    André Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
    
    , 1869).
• Genus Heminodus
  • Heminodus japonicus Kamohara, 1952.
  • Heminodus philippinus Smith, 1917.
• Genus Paraheminodus
  • Paraheminodus kamoharai Kawai, Imamura & Nakaya, 2004.
  • Murray's armored gurnard, Paraheminodus murrayi (Günther, 1880).
• Genus Peristedion
  • Peristedion altipinne Regan, 1903.
  • Peristedion amblygenys Fowler, 1938.
  • Peristedion antillarum Teague, 1961.
  • Peristedion barbiger Garman, 1899.
  • Flathead searobin, Peristedion brevirostre (Günther, 1860).
    
  • African armored searobin, Peristedion cataphractum (Linnaeus
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
    
    , 1758).
  • Peristedion crustosum Garman, 1899.
  • Peristedion ecuadorense Teague, 1961.
  • Slender searobin, Peristedion gracile Goode
    George Brown Goode
    George Brown Goode , was an ichthyologist, although most of his time was spent as a museum administrator and he was very interested in the history of science, especially the history of the development of science in America. Goode graduated from Wesleyan University and studied at Harvard University...
    
     & Bean
    Tarleton Hoffman Bean
    Tarleton Hoffman Bean was an American ichthyologist, born at Bainbridge, Pennsylvania on 8 October 1846. He died in Albany, New York on 28 December 1916.-FAMILY AND EDUCATION :...
    
    , 1896.
  • Peristedion greyae Miller, 1967.
  • Peristedion imberbe (Poey
    Felipe Poey
    -Biography:Poey was born in Havana, the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid. He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the...
    
    , 1861).
  • Peristedion investigatoris (Alcock
    Alfred William Alcock
    Alfred William Alcock was a British physician naturalist and carcinologist.Alcock was the son of a sea-captain, John Alcock in Bombay, India who retired to live in Blackheath...
    
    , 1898).
  • Armored gurnard, Peristedion liorhynchus (Günther, 1872).
  • Peristedion longispatha (Goode
    George Brown Goode
    George Brown Goode , was an ichthyologist, although most of his time was spent as a museum administrator and he was very interested in the history of science, especially the history of the development of science in America. Goode graduated from Wesleyan University and studied at Harvard University...
    
     & Bean
    Tarleton Hoffman Bean
    Tarleton Hoffman Bean was an American ichthyologist, born at Bainbridge, Pennsylvania on 8 October 1846. He died in Albany, New York on 28 December 1916.-FAMILY AND EDUCATION :...
    
    , 1886).
    
  • Armored searobin, Peristedion miniatum (Goode
    George Brown Goode
    George Brown Goode , was an ichthyologist, although most of his time was spent as a museum administrator and he was very interested in the history of science, especially the history of the development of science in America. Goode graduated from Wesleyan University and studied at Harvard University...
    
    , 1880).
    
  • Black-finned armored-gurnard, Peristedion moluccense Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1851.
  • Peristedion nesium Bussing, 2010.
  • Peristedion nierstraszi Weber, 1913.
  • Peristedion orientale (Fowler, 1938).
  • Peristedion paucibarbiger Castro-Aguirre & Garcia-Domínguez, 1984.
  • Peristedion riversandersoni (Alcock
    Alfred William Alcock
    Alfred William Alcock was a British physician naturalist and carcinologist.Alcock was the son of a sea-captain, John Alcock in Bombay, India who retired to live in Blackheath...
    
    , 1894).
  • Rimspine searobin, Peristedion thompsoni Fowler, 1952.
  • Peristedion truncatum (Günther, 1880).
  • Peristedion unicuspis Miller, 1967.
  • Peristedion weberi Smith, 1934.
• Genus Satyrichthys
  • Satyrichthys adeni (Lloyd, 1907).
  • Satyrichthys amiscus (Jordan
    David Starr Jordan
    David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...
    
     & Starks, 1904).
  • Satyrichthys clavilapis Fowler, 1938.
  • Satyrichthys engyceros (Günther, 1872).
  • Satyrichthys hians (Gilbert & Cramer, 1897).
  • Satyrichthys isokawae Yatou & Okamura, 1985.
  • Satyrichthys laticephalus Kamohara, 1952.
  • Satyrichthys lingi (Whitley, 1933).
  • Satyrichthys longiceps (Fowler, 1943).
  • Satyrichthys magnus Yatou, 1985.
  • Satyrichthys orientale (Fowler, 1938).
  • Satyrichthys piercei Fowler, 1938.
  • Satyrichthys quadratorostratus (Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979).
  • Spotted armored-gurnard, Satyrichthys rieffeli (Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1859).
  • Satyrichthys serrulatus (Alcock
    Alfred William Alcock
    Alfred William Alcock was a British physician naturalist and carcinologist.Alcock was the son of a sea-captain, John Alcock in Bombay, India who retired to live in Blackheath...
    
    , 1898).
  • Robust armored-gurnard, Satyrichthys welchi (Herre, 1925).