Species Chrysophrys major Temminck & Schlegel, 1943

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chrysophrys major Temminck, C.J. & Schlegel, H. 1843. Pisces. 21-72 pls 7A-36 in Siebold, P. Fr de (ed.). Fauna Japonica. Leyden : Apud Arnz & Socios Vol. 4(2–4). [for date of publication Bauchot, M.-L., Whitehead, P.J.P. & Monod, Th. 1982. Date of publication and authorship of the fish names in Eydoux & Souleyet's zoology of la Bonite, 1841–1852. Cybium 6(3): 59–73 [67]] [71, pl. 35].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RMNH D405 skin, Japan.
  Paralectotype(s) RMNH D404; RMNH D413; RMNH D415; RMNH 961; RMNH 2182.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Boeseman, M. 1947. Revision of the fishes collected by Burger and van Siebold in Japan. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 28: 1-242 pls 1-5 [76].

Generic Combinations

• Pagrus major (Temminck & Schlegel, 1943). —
  Nakabo, T. (ed.) 2002. Fishes of Japan with pictorial keys to the species. English edition.. Tokyo : Toikai University Press Vol. 1 pp.1-866. [858]

Introduction

Paulin (1990) and Carpenter (2001) regarded Pagrus major from the north-west Pacific as a junior synonym of P. auratus. Workers from Japan and China have treated Pagrus major as a distinct species. Tabata & Taniguchi (2000) found genetic differences between the two forms and recommended recognising the two groups as subspecies. We accept here the separation of the two forms as distinct species. The two Indo-Pacific species are now placed in the genus Chrysophrys (see introduction under genus).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Evans Shoal, NT, tropical, temperate, north-west Pacific (China and Japan to Vietnam)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, inshore marine.

General References

Carpenter, K.E. 2001. Sparidae, Lethrinidae. pp. 2990-3050 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 5 2791-3379 pp. [3002] (in part, northern distribution)

Paulin, C. 1990. Pagrus auratus, a new combination for the species known as "snapper" in Australasian waters (Pisces: Sparidae). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 24: 259-265

Tabata, K. & Taniguchi, N. 2000. Differences between Pagrus major and Pagrus auratus through mainly mtDNA control region analysis. Fisheries Science 66(1): 9–18

Common Name References

Garibaldi, L. 1996. List of animal species used in aquaculture. FAO Fisheries Circular 914: 1-38 (Red Seabream)

Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1-293 [140] (Pink Bream)

Yamada, U., Shirai, S., Irie, T., Tokimura, M., Deng, S. Zheng, Y., Li, C., Kim, Y.U. & Kim, Y.S. 1995. Names and illustrations of fishes from the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. Tokyo, Japan : Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation 288 pp. (Red Seabream Snapper)

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