Genus Sphyraena Artedi, 1793

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Genus Sphyraena Artedi, 1793

Striped Sea Pike

Compiler and date details

22 April 2013 - Douglass F. Hoese, Dianne J. Bray, & Matthew M. Lockett

20 December 2006 - Dianne J. Bray & Douglass F. Hoese

Sphyraena Artedi, P. 1793. Petri Artedi Angermannia - Sueci Synonymia Nominum Piscium fere omnium; In qua Recensio fit Nominum Piscium, omnium Facile Authorum, Qui umquam de Piscibus Scripsere: Uti Graecorum, Romanorum, Barbarorum, nec non omnium insequentium Ichthyologorum, una cum Nominibus Inquilinis variarum Nationum. Ichthyologiae Pars IV. Grypeswaldiae : A.F. Röse Edicio II, 140 pp. [largely reprint of Artedi, 1738] [124] [name regarded as available from index by Jordan, 1917, but without included species; first addition of species apparently Bloch & Schneider, 1801, including Esox sphyraena, Esox plumeri and Esox japonica].
Type species:
Esox sphyraena Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Jordan, D.S. & Gilbert, C.H. 1883. A synopsis of the fishes of North America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 16: 1-1018 [Date published 30/Apr/1883: dated 1882] [410].
Sphyraena Bloch, M.E. & Schneider, J.G. 1801. Systema Ichthyologiae Iconibus ex Illustratum. Berlin 584 pp. 110 pls. [109].
Type species:
Esox sphyraena Linnaeus, 1758 by absolute tautonymy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Jordan, D.S. 1917. The genera of fishes. Part 1. Stanford University Publications, University Series 27: 1-151 [58]

Introduction

The names used here are tentative. Further studies are needed on the Australian species. Species are difficult to separate and many records are not fully reliable. Morishita & Motomura (2020) described a new species Sphyraena stellata from the Indo-Pacific however its presence in Australia is uncertain.

Authorship of the genus is accepted here as Artedi. Artedi (1793) was largely a reprint of an 1738 publication, which normally would not confer availability. However the publisher added Editio II, indicating a new publication. Authorship is sometimes attributed to the publisher Röse.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), 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), 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)