Genus Aluterus Cloquet, 1816

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• Aluterus Cloquet, H. 1816. [Poissons]. In, Levrault, F.G. (ed.) Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Strasbourg Vol. 1 suppl. 138 pp. [135].

  Type species:

   Balistes monoceros Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation.
• Aleuterus Bosc, L.A.G. 1816. Poissons. In, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle. Appliquée aux arts à l'Agriculture, à l'Economie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc.. Paris : Deterville Vol. 1 552 pp. [302].

  Type species:

   Balistes monoceros Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Whitley, G.P. 1934. Supplement to the check-list of the fishes of New South Wales. 12 unnumbered pages in McCulloch, A.R. (ed.). The Fishes and Fish-like Animals of New South Wales. Sydney : Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. 104 pp. 43 pls. [11].
• Alutera Oken, L. 1817. V. Klasse Fische. Isis (Muenchen) 8(148): 1181-1183 [misprinted 1781-1783] [1183].

  Type species:

   Balistes monoceros Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Jordan, D.S. 1917. The genera of fishes. Part 1. Stanford University Publications, University Series 27: 1-151 [98].

 

Introduction

There has been considerable confusion over the correct name for this genus. Cuvier (1816) introduced the name as a vernacular name. Subsequently three authors latinized the name, each with a different spelling including Aleuterus Bosc, 1816 with no included species, Aluterus Cloquet, 1816 with two included species, Aluterus monoceros and Aluterus kleinii and Alutera Oken, 1817 with no included species. All names have been used by various authors in the past. Clearly Alutera is not the oldest name. Whitley (1934) gives the date of publication for Bosc as September 1816, but the date of publication for Cloquet is unknown to us. We accept here Aluterus as the correct name, which is in current usage. It is, however, not clear when the type species was designated for that genus. Aluterus kleinii is now regarded as a synonym of Aluterus monoceros, effectively fixing the type species.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Cuvier, G.L. 1816. Le Règne Animal, distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée. Les reptiles et les poisons. Paris : Déterville Vol. 2 pp. 104-351.

Whitley, G.P. 1934. Supplement to the check-list of the fishes of New South Wales. 12 unnumbered pages in McCulloch, A.R. (ed.). The Fishes and Fish-like Animals of New South Wales. Sydney : Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. 104 pp. 43 pls. [11]

 

History of changes

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