Symphodus
| Symphodus Temporal range:
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| S. rostratus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Rafinesque, 1810[1] |
| Type species | |
| Symphodus fulvescens Rafinesque, 1810[2]
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| Synonyms[3] | |
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
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- ^ 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.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Symphodus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Symphodus". FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ Bannikov, A. F. (1986). "The first discovery of fossil wrasses (Teleostei) in the Sarmatian deposits of Moldavia". Paleontological Journal. 20 (1): 57–62.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ 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.