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Cyclopsis Popov 1930

Description

Genus Cyclopsis Popov, 1930

Cyclopsis Popov, 1930: 74 (type species: Cyclopsis tentacularis Popov, 1930).

Diagnosis. Head and body with many tentacles; symplectic and quadrate separated; rudimentary coronomeckelian present in tendon from adductor mandibulae section 3; posterior part of palatine covered with a cartilaginous element.

Remarks. The genus is monotypic, appearing first as a nomen nudum in Soldatov & Popov (1929) and subsequently being made available in Popov (1930) and Soldatov & Lindberg (1930) (Mecklenburg & Sheiko, 2003). See Popov (1931) for a detailed description of Cyclopsis.

The genus includes only Cyclopsis tentacularis Popov, 1930.

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 page 54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.246721

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cyclopteridae
Genus
Cyclopsis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Scorpaeniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Popov
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cyclopsis Popov, 1930 sec. Oku, Imamura & Yabe, 2017

References

  • Popov, A. M. (1930) A short review of the fishes of the family Cyclopteridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10, 6, 69 - 76.
  • Soldatov, V. & Popov, A. (1929) On the new genus Cyclopteropsis (Pisces, Cyclopteridae) from the Okhotsk Sea. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser. A, 1929, 239 - 242.
  • Soldatov, V. K. & Lindberg, G. U. (1930) A review of the fishes of the seas of the Far East. Bulletins of the Pacific Science Institute, 5, i - xlvii, 1 - 576, pls. 1 - 15. [in Russian, with English summary, and new taxa also in English]
  • Mecklenburg, C. W. & Sheiko, B. A. (2003) Family Cyclopteridae Bonaparte 1831 - lumpsuckers. California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes, 6, 1 - 17.
  • Popov, A. M. (1931) Cyclopteridae of the Okhotsk Sea based on collections of the Hydrographical Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Izvestija Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1931, 85 - 99. [In Russian, new taxa diagnoses in English]