Parascolopsis

Parascolopsis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Spariformes
Family:	Nemipteridae
Genus:	Parascolopsis; Boulenge, 1901
Type species
	Parascolopsis townsendi; Boulenger, 1901
Synonyms
	Parascolopsoides J. L. B. Smith, 1953;

Parascolopsis is a genus of threadfin breams native to the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.[1]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

Parascolopsis akatamae Miyamoto, McMahan, & Kaneko[2]
Parascolopsis aspinosa (Manikyala Rao & Srinivasa Rao, 1981) (smooth dwarf monocle bream)
Parascolopsis baranesi B. C. Russell & Golani, 1993
Parascolopsis boesemani (Manikyala Rao & Srinivasa Rao, 1981) (redfin dwarf monocle bream)
Parascolopsis capitinis B. C. Russell, 1996
Parascolopsis eriomma (D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1909) (rosy dwarf monocle bream)
Parascolopsis inermis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) (unarmed dwarf monocle bream)
Parascolopsis melanophrys B. C. Russell & P. K. Chin, 1996 (dwarf monocle bream)
Parascolopsis qantasi B. C. Russell & Gloerfelt-Tarp, 1984 (slender dwarf monocle bream)
Parascolopsis rufomaculatus B. C. Russell, 1986 (red-spot dwarf monocle bream)
Parascolopsis tanyactis B. C. Russell, 1986 (long-rayed dwarf monocle bream)
Parascolopsis tosensis (Kamohara, 1938) (Tosa dwarf monocle bream)
Parascolopsis townsendi Boulenger, 1901 (scaly dwarf monocle bream)

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). Species of Parascolopsis in FishBase. February 2014 version.
MIYAMOTO, K., MCMAHAN, C. D., & KANEKO, A. (2020). Parascolopsis akatamae, a new species of dwarf monocle bream (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) from the Indo-West Pacific, with redescription of closely related species P. eriomma. Zootaxa, 4881(1), 91–103. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.6

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