Genus Tetractenos Hardy, 1983
- Tetractenos Hardy, G.S. 1983. Revision of Australian species of Torquigener Whitley (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), and two new generic names for Australian puffer fishes. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 13(1/2): 1-48 figs 1-18 [3-7, 8].
Type species:
Tetraodon hamiltoni Richardson, 1846 (authorship of species as Gray & Richardson, 1843) by original designation. - Aphanacanthus Le Danois, Y. 1959. Étude ostéologique, myologique et systématique des poissons du sous-ordre des Orbiculates. Annales de l'Institut Océanographie, Monaco & Paris ns 36(1): 1-274 figs 1-221 [174].
Type species:
Tetrodon hamiltoni Richardson, 1846 (type species considered not fixed by Hardy (1983) and largely based on misidentified glaber, but considered to be hamiltoni by Kottelat 2001 under article 70 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature; the generic name although older has never been used in Australia) by original designation.
Introduction
The generic name is involved in a complex issue of nomenclature dating back to 1855. Kottelat (2001) indicated that Aphanacanthus predates Tetractenos. Hardy discussed the genus, but considered that Aphanacanthus was based on multiple species in multiple genera and considered it incertae sedis. At that time there was some uncertainty over the type species and a type species is required for genera named after 1930. Also it appeared that much of the material was based on Tetractenos glaber. Kottelat (2001) considered that Le Danois (1959) fixed the type species as Tetrodon hamiltoni. To permanently use the name Tetractenos, a case would have to be put to the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature under Article 23.9.3. In the interests of stability we retain Tetractenos for the present.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
South-west Pacific.
IMCRA
Lord Howe Province (14), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)
General References
Hardy, G.S. 1983. Revision of Australian species of Torquigener Whitley (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), and two new generic names for Australian puffer fishes. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 13(1/2): 1-48 figs 1-18
Kottelat, M. 2001. Nomenclatural status of names of tetraodontiform fishes based on Bibron's unpublished work. Zoosystema 23(3): 605-618
Le Danois, Y. 1959. Étude ostéologique, myologique et systématique des poissons du sous-ordre des Orbiculates. Annales de l'Institut Océanographie, Monaco & Paris ns 36(1): 1-274 figs 1-221
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |