Species Gerres oyena (Forsskål, 1775)

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Species Gerres oyena (Forsskål, 1775)

Blacktip Silverbiddy, Blacktip Silver Biddy, Common Silver Biddy, Darnley Island Silver-belly, Darnley Island Silverbelly, Longtail Silverbiddy, Oceanic Silver Biddy, Shining Silver-belly, Slender Silver Belly

Labrus oyena Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [35] [originally as öyena and should have been written oeyana; under current Article 33.2.3.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature the spelling oyena is regarded as a justified emendation because it is in almost universal usage].
Type data:
Holotype ZMUC P.48209, Red Sea.
Cichla argyrea Forster, J.R. in Bloch, M.E. & Schneider, J.G. 1801. Systema Ichthyologiae Iconibus ex Illustratum. Berlin. 584 pp. 110 pls [344] [ex Sciaena argyrea Forster MS, part of description appears to be from Schneider].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Tanna, New Hebrides.
Gerres vaigiensis Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1824. Chapter 8. Poissons. 183-328 pls 43-65 in Freycinet, L.C.D. de (ed.). Voyage autour du Monde, entrepris par ordre du Roi, exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Paris : Pillet Aîné Vol. 1 712 pp. 96 pls. [292].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP 9489, Rawak Island, Bismarck Archipelago.
Gerres kapas Bleeker, P. 1851. Bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische fauna van Riouw. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 2: 469-497 [482].
Type data:

Syntype(s) RMNH 6683, Jakarta (as Batavia), Indonesia and Rio (as Riouw), Indonesia; NMV 46117 (possible), Jakarta (as Batavia), Indonesia and Rio (as Riouw), Indonesia.
Gerres australis Castelnau, F.L. de 1875. Researches on the fishes of Australia. Intercolonial Exhibition Essays. 2. pp. 1–52 in, Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876 : Official Record. Melbourne. [43].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP A.4568, Swan River, WA.
Gerres carinatus 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] [273, pl. 7(4)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM I.16347–001, Darnley Island, QLD.
Gerreomorpha rostrata 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] [274, pl. 8(3)].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown, Torres Strait, QLD.
Gerres splendens De Vis, C.W. 1884. New Australian fishes in the Queensland Museum. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 9(2): 389-400 [400].
Type data:
Holotype QM I.94 (figured in Whitley, G.P. 1930. Ichthyological miscellanea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(1): 8–31 fig. 1 pl. 1, p. 15), Cardwell, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Generic Combinations

Gerres argyreus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801). —
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 145–329 [215]
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [45] (1160)
Grant, E.M. 1991. Fishes of Australia. Brisbane : EM Grant Pty Ltd 480 pp. [198]
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. [2951] (regarded G. oyena as a separate species)
Xystaema carinatum (Alleyne & Macleay, 1877). —
Paradice, W.E. & Whitley, G.P. 1927. Northern Territory fishes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(1): 76-106 figs 1-3 pls 11-15 [89]
Gerres oblongus carinatus (Alleyne & Macleay, 1877). —
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [45] (1162)
Gerres oyena (Forsskål, 1775). —
Iwatsuki, Y., Kimura, S. & Yoshino, T. 1999. Redescription of Gerres baconensis (Evermann & Seale, 1907), G. equulus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 and G. oyena Forskål, included in the "G. oyena" complex with notes on other related species (Perciformes: Gerreidae). Ichthyological Research 46(4): 377-393 [385]

Introduction

Iwatsuki et al. (2007) treated Gerres kapas as a junior synonym of Gerres oyena, a decision followed here. However, Woodland (2001) recognised G. kapas as distinct from G. oyena and widespread in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean. Iwatsuki et al. (2007) based their synonymy on examination of non-type material (types are in poor condition) and they did not indicate which species Woodland (2001) recorded as G. kapas. Consequently literature records of Gerres kapas from Australia are not included here. Further studies of the Australian fauna are clearly needed.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Swan River, WA (32°03'S) to Moreton Bay, QLD (27°03'S), also Rowley Shoals (17°30'S) and Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea (12°16'S); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

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), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)