Genus Dentex Cuvier, 1815

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Dentex Cuvier, C.G.L. 1815. Observations et researches critiques sur différentes Poissons de la Méditerranée, et à leur occasion, sur des Poissons des autres mers, plus ou moins liés avec eux; par M.G. Cuvier. [In a report by A.D. = A.G. Desmarest]. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 1814: 80-92 [92].

  Type species:

   Sparus dentex Linnaeus, 1758 by absolute tautonymy.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

SPARIDAE: Dentex tumifrons (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) — Iwatsuki, Y, Akazaki, M. & Taniguchi, N. 2007. Review of the species of the genus Dentex (Perciformes: Sparidae) in the Western Pacific defined as the D. hypselosomus complex with the description of a new species, Dentex abei and a redescription of Evynnis tumifrons. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science A Suppl. No. 1: 29-49 [41] (restricted to Indonesia to Japan and placed in genus Evynnis)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East Atlantic-Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jul-2015	Dentex Cuvier, 1815	22-Jul-2015	MODIFIED
18-Dec-2014	SPARIDAE	16-Jul-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
14-Dec-2012		22-Jul-2015	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED