Cynoscion Gill 1861
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 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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.