Symphodus

Symphodus Temporal range: Middle Miocene to present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
S. rostratus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Labriformes
Family:	Labridae
Genus:	Symphodus Rafinesque, 1810 [1]
Type species
Symphodus fulvescens Rafinesque, 1810 [2]
Synonyms [3]
Corycus Cuvier, 1814 Crenilabrus Oken, 1817

Symphodus is a genus of wrasses native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. ^[4]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: ^[4]

• Symphodus bailloni (Valenciennes, 1839) (Baillon's wrasse)
• Symphodus caeruleus (Azevedo, 1999)
• Symphodus cinereus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (grey wrasse)
• Symphodus doderleini D. S. Jordan, 1890
• Symphodus mediterraneus (Linnaeus, 1758) (axillary wrasse)
• Symphodus melops (Linnaeus, 1758) (corkwing wrasse)
• Symphodus ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (ocellated wrasse)
• Symphodus roissali (A. Risso, 1810) (five-spotted wrasse)
• Symphodus rostratus (Bloch, 1791) (pointed-snout wrasse)
• Symphodus tinca (Linnaeus, 1758) (East Atlantic peacock wrasse)
• Symphodus trutta (Lowe 1834) (Emerald wrasse)

The following fossil species are also known:

• † Symphodus salvus Bannikov, 1986 - Middle Miocene (Langhian) of Moldova ^{[5] [6]}
• † Symphodus woodwardi (Kramberger , 1891) - Middle Miocene (Langhian) of Croatia ^[6]
• †Symphyodus westneati Carnevale, 2015 - Middle Miocene (Serravallian) of Austria ^{[6] [7]}

References

1. Rafinesque Schmaltz, C. S. (1810). "XXX. G. Symphodus". Caratteri di Alcuni Nuovi Generi e Nuove Specie di Animali e Piante della Sicilia. Palermo: Sanfilippo. p. 41.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Symphodus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 31 January 2020.
3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Labridae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 31 January 2020.
4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Symphodus". FishBase . August 2019 version.
5. Bannikov, A. F. (1986). "The first discovery of fossil wrasses (Teleostei) in the Sarmatian deposits of Moldavia". Paleontological Journal. 20 (1): 57–62.
6. Schwarzhans, Werner; Carnevale, Giorgio; Japundžić, Sanja; Bradić-Milinović, Katarina (2017). "Otoliths in situ from Sarmatian (Middle Miocene) fishes of the Paratethys. Part IV: Scorpaenidae, Labridae, and Gobiesocidae". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 136 (1): 93–108. doi:10.1007/s13358-017-0124-y. ISSN   1664-2376.
7. Carnevale, Giorgio (2015-06-03). "Middle Miocene wrasses (Teleostei, Labridae) from St.Margarethen (Burgenland, Austria) [121-159". Palaeontographica Abteilung A: 124–160. doi:10.1127/pala/304/2015/124.