Genus Sufflamen Jordan, 1916

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• Sufflamen Jordan, D.S. 1916. The nomenclature of American fishes as affected by the opinions of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Copeia 1916(29): 25-28 [27] [nom. nov. for Pachynathus Swainson, 1839; but with different type species Balistes capistratus Shaw, 1804; name is from the Latin Sufflamen = impediment or brake, referring to the locked spine and is neuter].
• Pachynathus Swainson, W. 1839. The natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles. In, Lardner, D. The Cabinet of Natural History. Vol. 2 London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, and John Taylor 452 pp. 135 figs. [194, 326] [ruled as a misspelling of Pachygnathus (Opinion 29) and therefore a junior homonym of Pachygnathus Dugès, 1834 (Arachnida), see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1910. Opinions rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinions 26–29. Smithsonian Institution. Publications 1989: 63–68].

  Type species:

   Pachynathus triangularis Swainson, 1839 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

General References

Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp.

Matsuura, K. 2001. Triacanthodidae, Triacanthidae, Balistidae. pp. 3902-3928 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218.

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)