COMMENTS v. 3.1 – 30 March 2024 view/download PDF Family GERREIDAE Mojarras 7 genera · 55 species Deckertichthys Vergara-Solana 2014 in honor of Gary Dennis Deckert, who first recognized the distinctiveness of this genus in his 1973 Ph.D. dissertation, and for his contribution to the study of Gerreidae; ichthys, fish Deckertichthys aureolus (Jordan & Gilbert […]
COMMENTS v. 2.0 – 9 Feb. 2024 view/download PDF Family PINGUIPEDIDAE Sandperches 7 genera · 101 species Kochichthys Kamohara 1961 Kochi, referring to Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan, type locality of K. flavofasciatus; ichthys, fish [replacement name for Kochia Kamohara 1960, preoccupied by Kochia Frech 1891 in fossil bivalves] Kochichthys flavofasciatus (Kamohara 1936) flavus, yellow; […]
Revised 19 Feb. 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Subfamily name from Smiliogaster Bleeker 1860, now a junior synonym of Osteobrama Heckel 1843, from smilíon (Gr. σμιλίον), diminutive of smílē (σμίλη), carving knife or scalpel, and gastḗr (Gr. γαστήρ), belly, referring to sharp (instead of flat) knife-shaped pre-pelvic abdominal keel of Smiliogaster (=Osteobrama) […]
Updated 19 Sept. 2023 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Amblyraja Malm 1877 amblýs (Gr. ἀμβλύς), blunt, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to relatively blunt snout compared with related skate genera; raja, from raia (L.), ray or skate Amblyraja doellojuradoi (Pozzi 1935) in honor of Argentine marine biologist Martín Doello-Jurado (1884–1948), Museo Argentino de […]
Revised 27 Feb. 2023 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Coloconger Alcock 1889 colo-, from kólos (Gr. κόλος), shortened or curtailed, referring to stubby body and short tail of C. raniceps; conger, Latin for a marine eel but in this case referring to its presumed close affinity with Conger (Congridae) Coloconger cadenati Kanazawa 1961 […]
Revised 31 Jan. 2023 PDF version (illustrated) Cruriraja Bigelow & Schroeder 1948 cruris (L.), leg or shank (i.e., limb), referring to anterior lobes of pelvic fins, which form a slender, limb-like structure; raja, from raia (L.), ray or skate Cruriraja andamanica (Lloyd 1909) –ica (L.), belonging to: Andaman Sea, northeastern Indian Ocean, type locality Cruriraja […]
Revised 12 Oct. 2023 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Akheilos White, Fahmi & Weigmann 2019 named for the Greek mythological sea daemon Ἄχειλος, modern transcription Akheilos (Latin Acheilus), who was a handsome boy until turned into a shark by the goddess Aphrodite as punishment for boasting that he was more beautiful than she; […]
COMMENTS v. 2.0 – 11 Oct. 2023 view/download PDF Family BEMBROPIDAE Duckbills 2 genera · 24 species · Taxonomic note: Previously classified as a subfamily of Percophidae, which is now placed in Suborder Notothenioidei. Bembrops Steindachner 1876 ops, appearance, similar to Bembras (Platycephaloidei: Bembridae) in shape of head and position of mouth Bembrops anatirostris Ginsburg […]
COMMENTS v. 8.0 – 4 Nov. 2023 view/download PDF Family BREGMACEROTIDAE Codlets 1 genus · 16 species Bregmaceros Thompson 1840 bregma, top of head; ceros, horn, referring to occipital ray emerging from top of head of B. mcclellandi Bregmaceros anchovia Ho, Endo & Lee 2020 Anchovia, a genus of anchovies (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae), referring […]
COMMENTS v. 7.0 – 9 Feb. 2024 view/download PDF Family SOLEIDAE Soles 30 genera · 182 species Achiroides Bleeker 1851 –oides, having the form of: presumed to be intermediate in form between Achirus (Achiridae) and Plagusia (=Symphurus, Cynoglossidae) Achiroides leucorhynchos Bleeker 1851 leukos, white; rhynchos, snout, referring to white area around mouth on blind side […]