Selene (fish)

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Selene
Selene vomer 1.jpg
Lookdown (S. vomer)
Selene brevoortii, Thousand Oaks library - 3.jpg
Hairfin lookdown (S. brevoorti), frontal view
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Suborder: Carangoidei
Family: Carangidae
Subfamily: Caranginae
Genus: Selene
Lacépède, 1802
Type species
Selene argentea
Lacepède, 1802 [1]
Synonyms [2]

Selene is a genus of carangids, commonly known as lookdowns and moonfishes, native to the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Species

There are currently eight recognized species in this genus: [3]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Selene brevoortii, Thousand Oaks library - 1.jpg Selene brevoortii (T. N. Gill, 1863)Hairfin lookdownEast Pacific where it is found from southernmost California, United States to northern Peru (occasionally south as far as Chile).
Selene brownii (G. Cuvier, 1816)Caribbean moonfishWestern Atlantic: continental shelf from Mexico to Colombia and Brazil, and from Cuba to Guadeloupe.
Selene dorsalis (T. N. Gill, 1863)African moonfishEastern Atlantic: Portugal to South Africa, including Madeira and Cape Verde
Mexican lookdown.jpg Selene orstedii Lütken, 1880Mexican moonfishBaja California, Mexico to Colombia.
Selene peruviana.jpg Selene peruviana (Guichenot, 1866)Peruvian moonfishsouthern California in the United States to central South America.
Selene setapinnis (S0587) (12592113974).jpg Selene setapinnis (Mitchill, 1815)Atlantic moonfishWestern Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada, along coasts of Gulf of Mexico and South America, Argentina.
Selene spixii (Castelnau, 1855)Mexico to Espirito Santo, Brazil.
Lookdown25.jpg Selene vomer (Linnaeus, 1758)LookdownCanada and Maine south to Uruguay, including Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico.

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References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Selene". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Carangidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Selene". FishBase . October 2015 version.