School bass

The school bass (Schultzea beta) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, it is the only member of the monotypic genus Schultzea which is part of the subfamily Serraninae which itself is classified within the family Serranidae, along with the anthias and groupers. It is found in the western central Atlantic Ocean. This species is found in deeper waters near coral reefswhere it forms small groups which feed on plankton. The school bass is a synchronous hermaphrodite.[3] The generic name honours the American ichthyologist Leonard Peter Schultz (1901-1986) who was Curator of Fishes at the United States National Museum who examined the specimens described by Loren P. Woods (1914-1979) as Schultzea campachanus, which was later shown to be a synonym of Hildebrand's Serranus beta.[5]

School bass
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Serranidae
Subfamily: Serraninae
Genus: Schultzea
Woods, 1958[2]
Species:
S. beta
Binomial name
Schultzea beta
(Hildebrand, 1940)
Synonyms[3][4]
  • Serranus beta Hildebrand, 1940
  • Schultzea campechanus Woods, 1958

References
  1. Anderson, W.; Carpenter, K.E.; Gilmore, G.; Milagrosa Bustamante, G.; Polanco Fernandez, A.; Robertson, R. (2015). "Schultzea beta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T16759398A16781878. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-2.RLTS.T16759398A16781878.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Schultzea". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Schutzea beta" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  4. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Serraninae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  5. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Serranus beta". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
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