Genus Pristigenys Agassiz, 1835

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• Pristigenys Agassiz, J.L.R. 1835. Revue critique des poisson fossiles figurés dans l'Ittiolitologie Veronese. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie 1835: 290-316 [not seen] [299] [often dated to Agassiz, J.L.R. 1839. Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles. Neuchâtel (Switz.) Vol. 4 pp. 1–16 [6]].

  Type species:

   Chaetodon substriatus Blainville, 1818 (a fossil species) by subsequent designation, see White, E.I. 1936. On certain Eocene percoid fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 18(103): 43-54.

 

Introduction

Currently only one species is recognised from Australia — . Recently that species has been found to be two distinct (see excluded species below), but similar species. Also Pristigenys refulgens may occur in Australia and is currently known from Indonesia. Also the tentative identifications of specimens as P. meyeri in the NTM from off Queensland need confirmation.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

PRIACANTHIDAE: Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes, 1862) [record from Australia based on painting in Allen, G.R. & Swainston, R. 1988. The Marine Fishes of North-Western Australia. A field guide for anglers and divers. Perth, WA : Western Australian Museum vi 201 pp., 70 pls [fig. 359] and Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls; that painting appears to have been based on specimen from Japan figured in Starnes, W.C. 1988. Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae. Bulletin of Marine Science 43(2): 117-203] — Iwatsuki, Y., Matsuda, T., Starnes, W.C., Nakabo, T. & Yoshino, T. 2012. A valid priacanthid species, Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862),and a redescription of P. niphonia (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829) in the Indo-West Pacific (Perciformes: Priacanthidae). Zootaxa 3206: 41-57 [records from Australia based on image in] (Western Australian Museum material identified as Pristigenys niphonia)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasman Basin Province (13), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

General References

Starnes, W.C. 1988. Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae. Bulletin of Marine Science 43(2): 117-203

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Nov-2012		15-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED