Chelon
| Chelon | |
|---|---|
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| Thicklip Grey Mullet (C. labrosus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Mugiliformes |
| Family: | Mugilidae |
| Genus: | Chelon Artedi, 1793[1] |
Chelon is a genus of mullets found in coastal marine waters, estuaries and rivers in the Atlantic Ocean and western Indian Ocean.
Taxonomy
Recent cladistic analysis recovered Chelon as paraphyletic with respect to Liza, so some species of Liza were re-assigned to Chelon and Liza synonymized with Chelon.[2][3]
Species
- Chelon aurata (A. Risso, 1810) (Golden grey mullet)
- Chelon bandialensis Diouf, 1991 (Diassanga mullet)
- Chelon bispinosus (S. Bowdich, 1825) (Cape Verde mullet)
- Chelon dumerili (Steindachner, 1870) (Grooved mullet)
- Chelon labrosus (A. Risso, 1827) (Thicklip grey mullet)
- Chelon luciae (M. L. Penrith & M. J. Penrith, 1967) (Saint Lucia mullet)
- Chelon parsia (Hamilton, 1822) (Goldspot mullet)
- Chelon ramada (A. Risso, 1827) (Thinlip grey mullet)
- Chelon richardsonii (A. Smith, 1846) (South African mullet)
- Chelon saliens (A. Risso, 1810) (Leaping mullet)
- Chelon tricuspidens (J. L. B. Smith, 1935) (Striped mullet)
See also
References
- ↑ Artedi P. (1793). Ichth., syn., 118.
- ↑ Durand, J.-D., Shen, K.-N., Chen, W.-J., Jamandre, B.-W., Blel, H., Diop, K., et al. 2012. Systematics of the grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugiliformes: Mugilidae): molecular phylogenetic evidence challenges two centuries of morphology-based taxonomy. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 64, 73–92. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.006
- ↑ Durand, J.-D., W.-J. Chen, K.-N. Shen, C. Fu, & P. Borsa. 2012. Genus-level taxonomic changes implied b mitochondrial phylogeny of grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugilidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies, 335: 687-697.
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