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Genus Pempheris Cuvier, 1829

Pempheris 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. [195].
Type species:
Pempheris touea Cuvier, 1829 by subsequent designation, see Bleeker, P. 1876. Systema Percarum revisum Pars I et II. Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Naturelles 11: 247-340 [312].

Introduction

The identification and distribution of several Pempheris species is currently unclear and the genus requires complete revision (Koeda et al. 2014), Mooi & Randall (2014), Randall et al. (2014). Mooi & Randall (2014) provided information on types. In a series of papers (Koeda et al. 2014, Randall & Bineesh 2014, Randall et al. 2014 and Randall & Victor 2015) major disagreements developed resulting in confusing over the correct identity of Australian species. Those works treated the Red Sea and Indian material. Only Koeda et al. (2014) included identifications for Australian material. Randall et al. (2014) and Randall & Victor (2015) disputed several conclusions in that work, but did not treat Australian material. That work directly attacked Koeda, sometimes simply dismissing conclusions in his paper as errors with little explanation. The work (Randall et al. 2014) also had errors of nomenclature, although those apparently do not affect Australian species. Consequently the information presented here is tentative for some species. Many species were treated by Mooi & Jubb (1996) and Mooi (2000). Genetic work has indicated additional species, but different studies have produced different results using different genes. The genus contains at least 25 species (Mooi & Randall 2014), but Randall & Victor (2014) described 34 new species from the western Indian Ocean. Further work is needed to validate those species and the work only has an effect on the use of the name Pempheris tomnagai in Australia..

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications: PEMPHERIDAE: Pempheris vanicolensis Cuvier, 1831 — Paxton, J.R. in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. 2006. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 35. ABRS & CSIRO Publishing : Australia Part 1, pp. xxiv 1-670; Part 2, pp. xxi 671-1472; Part 3, pp. xxi 1473-2178. [1276]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Atlantic and Indo-west-central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), 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), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)