Genus Pseudocaranx Bleeker, 1863
- Pseudocaranx Bleeker, P. 1863. Mémoire sur les poissons de la côte de Guinée. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem 2 18: 1-136 [82].
Type species:
Scomber dentex Bloch & Schneider, 1801 by subsequent designation, see Fowler, H.W. 1936. The marine fishes of West Africa based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909–1915. Part 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 70(2): 607-1493 figs 276-567 [692].
Introduction
In Australia, the species in this genus have often been misidentified. Australian species were reviewed by Smith-Vaniz & Jelks (2006).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Atlantic-Indo-west-central Pacific.
IMCRA
Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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)
General References
Gomon, M.F. 1994. Family Carangidae. pp. 582-590 figs 516-522 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [583]
Smith-Vaniz, W.F. & Jelks, H.L. 2006. Australian trevallies of the genus Pseudocaranx (Teleostei: Carangidae), with description of a new species from Western Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63(1): 97-106
History of changes
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| 13-Dec-2012 | 27-Jun-2014 | MODIFIED | ||
| 30-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |