Calamus (fish)

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Calamus
Temporal range: 33–0  Ma
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Calamus bajonado.jpg
Calamus bajonado
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Sparidae
Genus: Calamus
Swainson, 1839
Type species
Calamus megacephalus
Swainson, 1839 [2]
Species

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Synonyms [2]
  • Grammateus Poey, 1872

Calamus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sparidae, the seabreams and porgies. Most of the species in this genus are found in the Western Atlantic Ocean, with 2 species occurring in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Taxonomy

Calamus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1839 by the English zoologist William Swainson when he described Calamus megacephalus as its only species. [3] The type locality of C. megacephalus was given as Martinique, it was later found to be a junior synonym of Pagellus calamus , described by Achille Valenciennes in 1830. [4] This genus is placed in the family Sparidae within the order Spariformes by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World . [5] Some authorities classify this genus in the subfamily Sparinae, [6] but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Sparidae. [5]

Etymology

Calamus means "quill", an allusion to what Swainson described as “the second anal-fin spine, hollow, shaped as a pen". [3] The name of the senior synonym of the type species is, therefore, not a tautonym. [7]

Species

Calamus contains the fiollowing recognized species: [8]

Characteristics

Calamus porgies are characterized by having deep, compressed bodies and deep heads which has a steep dorsal profile and deep cheeks. The posterior nostrils are slits. The large mouth has fleshy lips and a large lower jaw. The suborbital bone overlaps the rear of the maxilla. There are 2 rows of teeth in the jaws, the teeth at the front are canine like and those in the rear resemble molars. The preoperculum has no serrations or spines on its margin. The dorsal fin is low and contains 13 spines while the anal fin is contains 3 spines. The pectoral fins are markedly longer than the pelvic fins. The cheeks and gill cover are scaled but the snout and space in front of the eyes are naked. [9] The largest species in the genus is the jolthead porgy (C. bajonado) which has a maximum published fork length of 76 cm (30 in) while the smallest is the spotfin porgy (C. cervigoni) with a maximum published total length of 20 cm (7.9 in). [8]

Distribution

Calamus porgies are found in the Americas, 11 of the 13 species being found in the Western Atlantic Ocean and the other 2, C. brachysomus and C. taurinus, in the eastern Pacific Ocean. [8]

Fisheries

Calamus porgies are valued as food fishes and are important quarry species for both commercial and recreational fisheries. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2007-12-25.
  2. 1 2 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Sparidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  3. 1 2 Swainson, W. (1839). On the natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. Vol. 2. London: Spottiswoode & Co.
  4. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Calamus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  5. 1 2 Nelson, J.S.; Grande, T.C.; Wilson, M.V.H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 502–506. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6. LCCN   2015037522. OCLC   951899884. OL   25909650M.
  6. ↑ Parenti, P. (2019). "An annotated checklist of the fishes of the family Sparidae". FishTaxa. 4 (2): 47–98.
  7. ↑ "Order SPARIFORMES: Families LETHRINIDAE, NEMIPTERIDAE and SPARIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. 22 December 2023. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  8. 1 2 3 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Calamus". FishBase . October 2023 version.
  9. ↑ "Genus: Calamus, Common Porgy, Porgies". Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute . Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  10. ↑ George H. Darcy (1986). Synopsis of Biological Data on the Porgies, Calamus arctifrons and C. proridens (Pisces: Sparidae) (PDF). NOAA Technical Report. Vol. NMFS44. NOAA.
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