Cynoscion acoupa
Authors/Creators
- 1. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661, Vairão, Portugal & Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boavista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil & Section of Amphibians and Reptiles, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh PA, 15213, USA & luisceriaco @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0591 - 9978
- 2. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661, Vairão, Portugal
- 3. Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boavista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil & canezlucas @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0005 - 7451 - 3890
- 4. Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boavista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil & moreira. c. r @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4599 - 7214 Corresponding authors
Description
Cynoscion acoupa (Lacepède 1801)
Extant specimens: MCUC ZOO.0000003 (Fig. 55a), MCUC ZOO.0000010 (Fig. 55b), MCUC ZOO.0000035 (Fig. 56a), and ACL-HN-0049 (Fig. 56b).
Classification on the specimen: “P. Th. Labrus ” (MCUC ZOO.0000003 and MCUC ZOO.0000035), “P. Th. Labrus argenteus ” (MCUC ZOO.0000010) and “P. Th. Labrus laevis ” (ACL-HN-0049).
Common names on the specimen (Portuguese/Tupi): “Pescada” (MCUC ZOO.0000010) and “Pescadinha (ACL-HN-0049)/ None.
Comments: This species was undescribed at the time Veloso prepared it. Species of the genus Cynoscion are very similar morphologically. This is evident here, as two of the three specimens possess different identifications Laburs laevis and Labrus argenteus. Additionally, the species name Labrus laevis was used to identify different species, Cynoscion acoupa and C. microlepidotus (see below). The same fact is observed for the Portuguese common names. “Pescada” and “Pescadinha” were both attributed to specimens of C. acoupa, but the name “Pescadinha” was also used as a common name for one of the specimens of C. microlepidotus (MCUC ZOO.0000001). Labrus laevis is described in the Ichthyologia Fluminensis manuscript (as Labrus levis) and could refer to Labrus laevis Lacepède 1801 (= Plectropomus laevis). However, this species is very distinct from Cynoscion acoupa, and was probably a coincidence. Labrus argenteus is also described in the Ichthyologia Fluminensis manuscript and since the name was not available at the time, we believe that Veloso intended to name it. There are 112 herborized specimens of Labrus listed in the Ajuda’s inventory (Ferreira 1794), and one specimen of L. argenteus and one of L. levis [sic] in the transference document to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. None of these two species is listed in the transference to the University of Coimbra. Antunes & Balbino (2003) also identified the specimen ACL-HN-0049 as Cynoscion acoupa. The specimen ACL-HN-0049 has the common name centered below the specimen, a pattern that deviates from most other specimens. Nowadays, this species has the common name of “pescada-amarela”. Cynoscion acoupa occurs in the western Atlantic from Panama to Argentina (Menezes & Figueiredo 1980).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lacepede
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Sciaenidae
- Genus
- Cynoscion
- Species
- acoupa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cynoscion acoupa (Lacepede, 1801) sec. Ceríaco, Santos, Semedo, Garcia & Moreira, 2023
References
- Ferreira, A. R. (1794) Inventario geral e particular de todos os produtos naturais e artificiais, instrumentos, livros, utensilios e moveis pertencentes ao Real Gabinete de Historia Natural, Jardim Botanico e suas casas anexas, como sao: gabinete da biblioteca, casa do desenho, dita do laboratorio, dita das preparacoes e armazem de reserva etc. Tudo como nela se declara. Unpublished manuscript, available under the accession number BN 21, 1, 010. Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 221 pp.
- Antunes, M. T. & Balbino, A. C. (2003) Herbario de peixes do Brasil no sec. XVIII. In: Ferrao, C. & Soares, J. P. M. (Eds.), Viagem ao Brasil de Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira: a expedicao philosofica pelas capitanias do Para, Rio Negro, Mato Grosso e Cuyaba: Documentos do Museu Bocage de Lisboa, Vol. I. Petropolis, Kapa Editorial, pp. 75 - 119.
- Figueiredo, J. L. & Menezes, N. A. (1980) Manual de peixes marinhos do sudeste do Brasil. III. Teleostei (2). Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 90 pp.