Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Opistognathidae
Genus: Opistognathus
Species (66):
O. adelus –
O. afer –
O. albicaudatus –
O. alleni –
O. aurifrons –
O. brasiliensis –
O. brochus –
O. castelnaui –
O. crassus –
O. cuvierii –
O. cyanospilotus –
O. darwiniensis –
O. decorus –
O. dendriticus –
O. dipharus –
O. elizabethensis –
O. ensiferus –
O. evermanni –
O. eximius –
O. fenmutis –
O. fossoris –
O. galapagensis –
O. gilberti –
O. hongkongiensis –
O. hopkinsi –
O. inornatus –
O. iyonis –
O. jacksoniensis –
O. latitabundus –
O. leprocarus –
O. liturus –
O. lonchurus –
O. longinaris –
O. macrognathus –
O. macrolepis –
O. margaretae –
O. maxillosus –
O. megalepis –
O. melachasme –
O. mexicanus –
O. muscatensis –
O. nigromarginatus –
O. nothus –
O. panamaensis –
O. papuensis –
O. pardus –
O. punctatus –
O. randalli –
O. reticeps –
O. reticulatus –
O. rhomaleus –
O. robinsi –
O. rosenbergii –
O. rosenblatti –
O. rufilineatus –
O. scops –
O. seminudus –
O. signatus –
O. simus –
O. smithvanizi –
O. solorensis –
O. stigmosus –
O. thionyi –
O. trimaculatus –
O. variabilis –
O. verecundus –
O. vicinus –
O. walkeri –
O. whitehursti
Name
Opistognathus Cuvier, 1816: 252
- Type species: Opistognathus nigromarginatus Rüppell, 1830
Synonyms
- Gnathypops Gill, 1862
- Merogymnoides Whitley, 1966
- Merogymnus Ogilby, 1908
- Tandya Whitley, 1930
- Upsilonognathus Fowler, 1946
References
- Cuvier G.L. 1816–1817. Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Avec Figures, dessinées d'après nature. Tome II. Contenant Les reptiles, les poissons, les mollusques et les annélides. Edition 1, Deterville, Paris. pp. i–xviii + 1–532. [Pls. 9–10, in v. 4] DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.41460 BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 252]
- Fowler, H. W.; 1946: Notes on Bahama fishes with a description of a new jaw fish (Opisthognathidae). Notulae Naturae (Philadelphia), No. 181: 1–8.
- Gill, T. N.; 1862: Remarks on the relations of the genera and other groups of Cuban fishes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 14: 235–242.
- Ogilby, J. D.; 1908: On new genera and species of fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 21: 1–26.BHL
- Whitley, G. P.; 1930: Ichthyological miscellanea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 10 (1): 8–31, Pl. 1.
- Whitley, G. P.; 1966: Notes on some Queensland fishes. Australian Zoologist, 13 (3): 235–243, Pls. 13-14.
- Smith-Vaniz, W.F. 2010: New species of Indo-Pacific jawfishes (Opistognathus: Opistognathidae) from the Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Smithiana bulletin, 12: 39–54. PDF of containing issue
- Smith-Vaniz, W.F. 2016. Opistognathus ensiferus, a new species of jawfish (Opistognathidae) from the Gulf of Mannar, India, with redescription of O. solorensis Bleeker. Zootaxa 4196(2): 278–288. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.2.6. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
- Smith-Vaniz, W.F.; Bineesh, K.K.; Akhilesh, K.V. 2012: Opistognathus pardus, a new species of jawfish (Teleostei: Opistognathidae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 3523: 20–24. Preview PDF Reference page.
- Smith-Vaniz, W.F., Tornabene, L. & Macieira, R.M. 2018. Review of Brazilian jawfishes of the genus Opistognathus with descriptions of two new species (Teleostei, Opistognathidae). ZooKeys 794: 95–133. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.794.26789 Reference page.
Links
- ION
- Nomenclator Zoologicus
- Opistognathus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
- Opistognathus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 06/2022. - Opistognathus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.