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Pseudocaranx Bleeker 1863

Description

Pseudocaranx Bleeker

Pseudocaranx Bleeker, 1863: 82.

Type species. Scomber dentex Bloch and Schneider, 1801, by subsequent designation of Fowler, 1936: 692.

Remarks. These fishes are presumed to comprise a monophyletic group, but the most appropriate generic classification for them is uncertain pending a well collaborated phylogeny of carangines. Citula Cuvier, 1816 (type species Citula banksii Risso, 1820 [= P. dentex] by subsequent monotypy) is an available senior synonym of Pseudocaranx (type species Scomber dentex) but this generic name has not been used for a nominal species of the group since Rissoʼs description. In the interest of nomenclatural stability, the junior name should continue to be used pending a petition to the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature to conserve the more familiar generic name. Other more recent synonyms of Pseudocaranx are Longirostrum Wakiya, 1924, Usa (as a subgenus of Caranx) Whitley, 1927, and Usacaranx Whitley, 1931. Within the Caranginae, Pseudocaranx and Caranx equula Temminck and Schlegel, 1844, which Kijima et al., 1986 and Gushiken, 1988 assign to the monotypic genus Kaiwarinus Suzuki, 1962, are exceptional in having very poorly developed inferior vertebral foramina, and may be a sister taxa.

Notes

Published as part of Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2006, Australian trevallies of the genus Pseudocaranx (Teleostei: Carangidae), with description of a new species from Western Australia, pp. 97-106 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.12, http://zenodo.org/record/12210701

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bleeker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Carangidae
Genus
Pseudocaranx
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudocaranx Bleeker, 1863 sec. Smith-Vaniz & Jelks, 2006

References

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  • Bloch, M. E., and Schneider, J. G. 1801. M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum. Systema Ichthyologiae. 584 pp.
  • Fowler, H. W. 1936. The marine fishes of West Africa based on the collection of the American Museum Congo expedition, 1909 - 1915. Part II. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 70 (2): 607 - 1493.
  • Cuvier, G. 1816. Le Regne Animal distribue dʼapres son organisation pour servir de base a lʼhistoire naturelle des animaux et dʼintroduction a lʼanatomie comparee. Les reptiles, les poissons, les mollusques et les annelides. Regne Animal (ed. 1) 2: 532 pp.
  • Risso, A. 1820. Memoire sur quelques poissons observes dans la mer de Nice. Journal de physique de chimie et dʼhistoire naturelle 91: 241 - 255.
  • Wakiya, Y. 1924. The Carangoid fishes of Japan. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 15 (2 / 3): 139 - 292.
  • Whitley, G. P. 1927. Studies in ichthyology. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 15 (5): 289 - 304.
  • Whitley, G. P. 1931. New names for Australian fishes. Australian Zoologist 6 (4): 310 - 334.
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  • Kijima, A., Taniguchi, N., and Ochiai, A. 1986. Genetic relationships in the family Carangidae. Pp. 840 - 848 in: Uyeno, T., Arai, R., Taniuchi, T., and Matsuura, K. (eds.). Indo-Pacific fish Biology: Proceedings of the 2 nd International Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Tokyo.
  • Gushiken, S. 1988. Phylogenetic relationships of the perciform genera of the family Carangidae. Japanese Journal of Ichthology 34 (4): 443 - 461.
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