Species Gerres longirostris (Lacépède, 1801)
Strongspine Silverbiddy, Strong-spined Silver-biddy
- Labrus longirostris Lacépède, B.G. 1801. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : chez Plassan Vol. 3 558 pp. 34 pls. [467, 468, pl. 9(1)].
Type data:
Neotype MNHP 1965–038, Madagascar (original type locality Great Gulf of India).Subsequent designation references:
Iwatsuki, Y., Kimura, S. & Yoshino, T. 2001. Redescription of Gerres longirostris (Lacepède, 1801) and Gerres oblongus Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830, included in the Gerres longirostris complex (Perciformes: Gerreidae). Copeia 2001(4): 954-965 [955]. - Gerres poieti Cuvier, G.L. 1829. Le Règne Animal Distribué d'après son Organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Poissons. Paris : Fortin, Masson et Co. Vol. 2 Nouvelle édition, pp. 122-406. [188] [Woodland, D.J. 2001. Gerreidae. pp. 2946-2960 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 pp. 2791–3379. suggests name should be spelled G. poeti dating to Cuvier (1830), which represents a different species].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (MNHP 9467 designated as a neotype by Bauchot, M.-L. & Desoutter, M. 1989. Catalogue critique des types de poissons du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. (Suite) Sous-ordre des Percoidei (Familles des Aplodactylidae, Apolectidae, Arripidae, Cepolidae, Cheilodactylidae, Chironemidae, Cirrhitidae, Echeneidae, Enoplosidae, Embiotocidae, Gerreidae, Lactariidae, Latrididae, Leiognathidae, Lobotidae, Malacanthidae, Menidae, Nandidae, Oplegnathidae, Owstoniidae, Pomatomidae et Rachycentridae). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 11(2): 1–58, but that work was not a revisionary work and the designation is invalid, see Iwatsuki, Y. & Kimura, S. 1997. Gerres methueni Regan, 1920, a senior synonym of G. rappi (Barnard, 1927) (Teleostei: Perciformes: Gerreidae). Ichthyological Research 44(1): 1–7 figs 1–2), Mahé, India. - Gerres longicaudus Alleyne, H.G. & Macleay, W.J. 1877. The ichthyology of the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1(3–4): 261-281, 321-359, pls 3-9, 10-17 [pp. 261-281, pls 3-9 published Feb 1877; pp. 321-359, pls 10-17 published Mar 1877] [272, pl. 7(2)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM I.16344–001, Cape Grenville, QLD. - Xystaema darnleyensis Ogilby, J.D. 1913. On six new or rare Queensland fishes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 2: 81-89 figs 21-23 [86, pl. 23].
Type data:
Syntype(s) QM I.1074 (labelled holotype, but no holotype selected in original publication), Darnley Island, QLD; QM I.1073, Darnley Island, QLD; QM I.1075, Darnley Island, QLD; QM I.1076, Darnley Island, QLD.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Iwatsuki, Y., Kimura, S. & Yoshino, T. 2001. Redescription of Gerres longirostris (Lacepède, 1801) and Gerres oblongus Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830, included in the Gerres longirostris complex (Perciformes: Gerreidae). Copeia 2001(4): 954-965 [955]
Generic Combinations
- Gerres darnleyensis (Ogilby, 1913). —
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 145–329 [215] - Gerres longirostris (Lacépède, 1801). —
Iwatsuki, Y., Kimura, S. & Yoshino, T. 2001. Redescription of Gerres longirostris (Lacepède, 1801) and Gerres oblongus Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830, included in the Gerres longirostris complex (Perciformes: Gerreidae). Copeia 2001(4): 954-965 [955]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Gove, NT (136°50'E) to Mackay, QLD (21°17'S), and Cocos (Keeling) Islands; tropical east-Indo-west-central Pacific.
IMCRA
Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Estuary, inshore, mangrove, sand bottom marine, silt bottom-marine, sublittoral.
General References
Iwatsuki, Y., Kimura, S. & Yoshino, T. 1998. Redescription of Gerres erythrourus (Bloch, 1791), a senior synonym of G. abbreviatus Bleeker, 1850 (Teleostei : Perciformes: Gerreidae). Copeia 1998(1): 165-172 fig. 1 (as G. poeti)
Iwatsuki, Y., Kimura, S. & Yoshino, T. 2001. Redescription of Gerres longirostris (Lacepède, 1801) and Gerres oblongus Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830, included in the Gerres longirostris complex (Perciformes: Gerreidae). Copeia 2001(4): 954-965 [955]
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 145–329 [215] (as Gerres darnleyensis and as G. longicaudus)
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [45] (1161 as Gerres longicaudus)
Woodland, D.J. 2001. Gerreidae. pp. 2946-2960 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.
Common Name References
Munro, I.S.R. 1967. The Fishes of New Guinea. Port Moresby : Dept. Agric. Stock Fish. 651 pp. 23 figs 84 pls. [333] (Strong-spined Silver-biddy)
Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Strongspine Silverbiddy)
History of changes
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