Plectorhynchinae

Plectorhinchinae

Plectorhinchinae

Subfamily of fishes

Plectorhinchinae, is one of two subfamilies of the family Haemulidae, some known colloquially as sweetlips. This subfamily is regarded as having an Old World origin.[2]

Quick Facts Scientific classification, Genera ...

Genera

The following genera are included in the Plectorhinchinae:[3][4][5]

Some authorities place the genus Genyatremus within the Haemulinae,[6] although both Fishbase and Catalog of Fishes put this genus in the subfamily Plectorhinchinae.[4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
  2. [2]
    José Julián Tavera; P. Arturo Acero; Eduardo F Balart; Giacomo Bernardi (2012). "Molecular phylogeny of grunts (Teleostei, Haemulidae), with an emphasis on the ecology, evolution, and speciation history of New World species". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12 (57): 57. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-57. PMC 3472276. PMID 22537107.
  3. [3]
    Nicolas Bailly (2017). "Plectorhinchinae Jordan & Thompson, 1912". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  4. [4]
    Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2021). "Haemulidae" in FishBase. February 2021 version.
  5. [5]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Haemulidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  6. [6]
    Paolo Parenti (2019). "An annotated checklist of the fishes of the family Haemulidae (Teleostei: Perciformes)". Iranian Journal of Ichthyology. 6 (3): 150–196.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Plectorhynchinae, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.