Subfamily Serraninae

Serranidae: Serraninae

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Chelidoperca pleurospilus syntype

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Introduction

Worldwide the subfamily Serraninae comprises 13 genera and about 87 species (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and five described species are known from Australia. Species are small- to medium-sized fishes found on the continental shelf. Maximum size is 60 cm. Acanthistius is sometimes placed here following Nelson (1994), based on Johnson (1983) and Kendall (1984). More recent work has suggested a relationship with Anthiadinae (as Anthiinae in Heemstra & Heemstra 2004), but Craig & Hastings (2007) suggested that the genus may not belong with the Serranidae. We follow Nelson et al (2016) and Anderson (2018) in placing that genus with the Anthiadinae.

General References

Anderson, W.D. Jr. 2018. Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae). Zootaxa 4475(1): 1-62

Craig, M.T. & Hastings, P.A. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of the groupers of the subfamily Epinephelinae (Serranidae) with a revised classification of the Epinephelini. Ichthyological Research 54(1): 1-17

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. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [1031]

Johnson, G.D. 1983. Niphon spinosus a primitive epinepheline serranid, with comments on the monophyly and interrelationships of the Serranidae. Copeia 1983(3): 777-787 figs 1-9

Kendall, A.W. Jr 1984. Serranidae: development and relationships. pp. 499-510 in Moser, H.G. et al. (eds). Ontogeny and Systematics of Fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Special Publication 1: 1-760

Matsunuma, M. & Fumihito, T. 2020. Redescription of the serranid perchlet Chelidoperca pleurospilus (Günther, 1880). Zootaxa 4830(1): 41–160

Nelson, J.S. 1994. Fishes of the World. New York : John Wiley & Sons 600 pp.

Nelson, J.S., Grande, T.C. & Wilson, M.V.H. 2016. Fishes of the World. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons 5, 752 pp.

Smith, W.L. & Craig, M.T. 2007. Casting the percomorph net widely: the importance of broad taxonomic sampling in the search for the placement of serranid and percid fishes. Copeia 2007(1): 35-55

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