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Aptocyclus De la Pylaie 1835

Description

Genus Aptocyclus De la Pylaie, 1835

Aptocyclus De la Pylaie, 1835: 528 (type species: Cyclopterus ventricosus Pallas, 1769).

Cyclopterichthys Steindachner, 1881: 192 [type species: Cyclopterichthys glaber Steindachner, 1881 (= junior synonym of Cyclopterus ventricosus)].

Liparops Garman, 1892: 42 [type species: Cyclopterus stelleri Pallas, 1814 (= junior synonym of Cyclopterus ventricosus)].

Elephantichthys Hubbs & Schultz, 1934: 21 [type species: Elephantichthys copeianus Hubbs & Schultz, 1934 (= junior synonym of Cyclopterus ventricosus)].

Pelagocyclus Lindberg & Legeza, 1955: 436 [type species Pelagocyclus vitiazi Lindberg & Legeza, 1955 (= junior synonym of Cyclopterus ventricosus)].

Diagnosis. See “Diagnosis” of the subfamily Liparopsinae.

Remarks. Lindberg and Legeza (1955) established the genus Pelagocyclus, known only from the holotype of Pelagocyclus vitiazi Lindberg & Legeza, 1955, and were followed by many authors (e.g., Ueno, 1970; Kido, 1984; Nelson, 1994), until Kido & Shinohara (1996) demonstrated the conspecificity of P. vitiazi and A. ventricosus (Pallas, 1769), the latter having priority.

This genus includes only A. ventricosus.

Notes

Published as part of Oku, Kanami, Imamura, Hisashi & Yabe, Mamoru, 2017, Phylogenetic relationships and a new classification of the family Cyclopteridae (Perciformes: Cottoidei), pp. 1-59 in Zootaxa 4221 (1) on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.246721

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cyclopteridae
Genus
Aptocyclus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Scorpaeniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
De la Pylaie
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Aptocyclus la, 1835 sec. Oku, Imamura & Yabe, 2017

References

  • Pallas, P. S. (1769) Spicilegia Zoologica. Quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species, tomus 1, fasciculos 7. Gottlieb August Lange, Berolini (= Berlin), 42 pp., 6 pls.
  • Steindachner, F. (1881) Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenchaften, Classe v. 83 (1. Abth.), 276 pp., 8 pls.
  • Garman, S. (1892) The Discoboli (Cyclopteridae, Liparopsidae and Liparididae). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 14, 1 - 96, pls. 1 - 13.
  • Pallas, P. S. (1814) Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicilia, mores et descriptiones anatomen atque icones plurimorum. Caesarea Academiae Scientiarum, Petropoli (= Saint Petersburg), vii + 428 + cxxv pp.
  • Hubbs, C. & Schultz L. P. (1934) Elephantichthys copeianus, a new cyclopterid fish from Alaska. Copeia, 1934, 21 - 26. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1436430
  • Lindberg, G. U. & Legeza, M. I. (1955) A review of the genera and species of the subfamily Cyclopterinae (Pisces). Bulletin of the Zoological Institute Academy of Science, 18, 389 - 458, figs. 1 - 33. [in Russian, Ueno, T. translated in English]
  • Ueno, T. (1970) Fauna Japonica, Cyclopteridae (Pisces). Academic Press of Japan, Tokyo, 233 pp., 13 pls.
  • Kido, K. (1984) Cyclopteridae. In: Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds.), The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, pp. 336 - 337.
  • Nelson, J. S. (1994) Fishes of the world, 3 rd edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York, xvii + 600 pp.
  • Kido, K. & Shinohara, G. (1996) Pelagocyclus vitiazi Lindberg & Legeza, 1955, a junior synonym of Aptocyclus ventricosus (Pallas, 1769) (Scorpaeniformes: Cyclopteridae). Ichthyological Research, 43, 175 - 177. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02348242