Published December 27, 2023 | Version v1
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Cynoscion Gill 1861

  • 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 sp., probably Cynoscion jamaicensis (Vaillant & Bocourt 1883)

Extant specimens: MCUC ZOO.0000023 (Fig. 58).

Classification on the specimen: None.

Common names on the specimen (Portuguese/Tupi): None.

Comments: Two species of the genus Cynoscion with truncate caudal fin and ctenoid scales occur in the southwestern Atlantic, C. guatucupa and C. jamaicensis (Menezes & Figueiredo 1980; Chao 2002). Cynoscion jamaicensis can be distinguished from C. guatucupa by a higher number of dorsal-fin rays (22–27 in C. jamaicensis vs. 18–21 in C. guatucupa) and by a higher number of scales above lateral line (68–73 in C. jamaicensis vs. 63–66 in C. guatucupa) (Menezes & Figueiredo 1980; Chao 2002). The specimen analyzed has more than 23 dorsal-fin rays, however, due to its poor conditions, it is not possible to count the scales, hindering a proper identification of this specimen.

Notes

Published as part of Ceríaco, Luis M. P., Santos, Bruna S., Semedo, Thiago B. F., Garcia, Lucas Canes & Moreira, Cristiano Rangel, 2023, The fish collection of José Mariano da Conceição Veloso (1742 - 1811) and the beginning of ichthyological research in Brazil, with a taxonomic description of the extant specimens, pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 5391 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5391.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10434709

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gill
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Sciaenidae
Genus
Cynoscion
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cynoscion Gill, 1861 sec. Ceríaco, Santos, Semedo, Garcia & Moreira, 2023

References

  • 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.
  • Chao, N. L. (2002) Sciaenidae. In: Carpenter, K. E. (Ed.), The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Vol. 3. Bony Fishes Part 2 (Opistognathidae to Molidae). Food and agriculture organization of the United Nations, Rome, pp. 1583 - 1653.