Stellifer

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Stellifer
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Stellifer lanceolatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Sciaenidae
Genus: Stellifer
Oken, 1817
Type species
Bodianus stellifer
Bloch, 1790 [1]
Species

see text

Synonyms [1]
  • Homoprion Holbrook, 1855
  • Ophioscion Gill, 1863
  • Sigmurus Gilbert, 1898
  • Stellicarens Gilbert, 1898
  • Stelliferus Stark, 1828
  • Zestidium Gilbert, 1898
  • Zestis Gilbert, 1898

Stellifer is a genus of fish in the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. It is found in New World waters. [2] Many species are known commonly as stardrums.

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In the Americas, this is one of the most diverse genera among the sciaenids. Its members can be found in the tropics and subtropics and in shallow and deeper waters. Some are semianadromous, spawning in the ocean near estuaries so the eggs and young will be taken into lower-salinity environments on the tides. [3]

The genus belongs to the subfamily Stelliferinae, whose members have double-chambered swim bladders (the smaller front chamber is "yoke-shaped" and the main chamber is "carrot-shaped") and two pairs of large otoliths.

These fish are very common in their range, and there are usually at least two species occurring together. Stellifer rastrifer is one of the most abundant sciaenids in the seas along the coast of Brazil. [3]

These fish are carnivorous, with diet assessments of a few different species finding mysids such as Mysidopsis coelhoi , copepods such as Acartia lilljeborgii and Pseudodiaptomus acutus , sergestoid prawns such as Peisos petrunkevitchi , amphipods, chaetognaths, isopods, cumaceans, ostracods, ascidian tunicates, nematodes, polychaetes, fish, and bivalves, or at least their siphons. [4] S. rastrifer is known to cannibalize juveniles of its own species. [5]

Several species are common bycatch in the seabob shrimp industry. [3]

Taxonomy

Stellifer was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1817 by Lorenz Oken, based on Les Stelliferes of Georges Cuvier of 1816. The only species then in the genus was Bodianus stellifer [1] which had been described in 1789 by Marcus Elieser Bloch with its type locality being given as the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, although this is likely to be Suriname. [6] FishBase treats this genus and Ophioscion as separate valid genera, [7] while Catalog of Fishes treats Ophioscion as a synonym of Stellifer. [1] Some workers have placed this genus in the subfamily Stelliferinae. [8] However, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise tribes or subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes. [9]

Species

Stellifer contains the following recognized valid species: [10]

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<i>Cynoscion</i> Genus of fishes

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack-knifefish</span> Species of fish

The jack-knifefish is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean, where its distribution extends along the eastern coasts of the Americas from the Carolinas in the United States to Brazil, including the Caribbean. Other common names include donkey fish and lance-shaped ribbonfish.

<i>Pareques acuminatus</i> Species of fish

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<i>Larimichthys</i> Genus of fishes

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<i>Corvula</i> Genus of fishes

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<i>Bairdiella</i> Genus of fishes

Bairdiella is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. These fishes are found in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Ocean.

<i>Umbrina</i> Genus of fishes

Umbrina is a genus of fish from the croaker family Sciaenidae. The genus contains 17 species occurring in tropical and warm temperate waters of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Western Indian Ocean and the eastern Pacific.

<i>Pareques</i> Genus of fishes

Pareques is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. These fishes are found in the western Atlantic Ocean and eastern Pacific Ocean.

<i>Lonchurus</i> Genus of fishes

Lonchurus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. These fishes are found in the Western Atlantic.

<i>Nibea</i> Genus of fishes

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<i>Johnius</i>

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<i>Odontoscion</i>

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<i>Ophioscion</i>

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<i>Pachyurus</i> Genus of freshwater fishes in the Sciaenidae family, including ten South American species

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Paralonchurus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. These fishes are found in the eastern Pacific Ocean with one species in the western Atlantic Ocean.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Sciaenidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  2. ↑ Chao, N. L. (2001). Two new species of Stellifer from inshore waters of the eastern Pacific, with a redescription of S. ephelis (Perciformes: Sciaenidae). Rev. Biol. Trop. 49 Supl. 1 67-80.
  3. 1 2 3 Pombo, M., et al. (2012). Population biology of Stellifer rastrifer, S. brasiliensis and S. stellifer in Caraguatatuba Bay, northern coast of São Paulo, Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Oceanography 60(3) 271-82.
  4. ↑ Pombo, M., et al. (2013). Seasonality, dietary overlap and the role of taxonomic resolution in the study of the diet of three congeneric fishes from a tropical bay. PLoS ONE 8(2) e56107.
  5. ↑ Camargo, M. and V. Isaac. (2004). Food categories reconstruction and feeding consumption estimates for the sciaenid Macrodon ancylodon (Bloch & Schneider), and the congeneric fishes Stellifer rastrifer (Jordan) and Stellifer naso (Jordan) (Pisces, Perciformes) in the Caeté Estuary, northern coast of Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 21(1) 85-89.
  6. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Stellifer". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  7. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). Species of Ophioscion in FishBase . February 2023 version.
  8. ↑ Kunio Sasaki (1989). "Phylogeny of the family Sciaenidae, with notes on its Zoogeography (Teleostei, Peciformes)" (PDF). Memoirs of the Faculty of Fishes Hokkaido University. 36 (1–2): 1–137.
  9. ↑ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 497–502. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6.
  10. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). Species of Stellifer in FishBase . February 2023 version.
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