Cheilodactylus
Cheilodactylus is a genus of morwongs from the oceans off southern Africa.[1][2]
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| Cheilodactylus fasciatus | |
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| Genus: | Cheilodactylus Lacépède, 1803 |
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| Cheilodactylus fasciatus Lacepède, 1803 | |
Species
The genus only includes two species:[1][2]
- Cheilodactylus fasciatus – redfingers
- Cheilodactylus pixi – barred fingerfin
The genus used to also contain species currently assigned to Chirodactylus, Goniistius, Morwong and Pseudogoniistius, but DNA and morphologic analyses found those species to be nested within Latridae and more derived than the kelpfish and marblefish and the Cheilodactylus type species (C. fasciatus).[2][3][4]
References
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cheilodactylus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
- Ludt, W.B., Burridge, C.P. & Chakrabarty, P. (2019). A taxonomic revision of Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters. Zootaxa 585(1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4585.1.7
- Burridge and White (2000). Molecular phylogeny of the antitropical subgenus Goniistius (Perciformes: Cheilodactylidae: Cheilodactylus): evidence for multiple transequatorial divergences and non-monophyly. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70: 435–458.
- Burridge and Smolenski (2004). Molecular phylogeny of the Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Perciformes: Cirrhitoidea) with notes on taxonomy and biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 118–127
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