Kyphosus
Kyphosus is a genus of sea chubs native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans.[4] It is the only genus in the subfamily Kyphosinae of the family Kyphosidae.[5]
| Kyphosus | |
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| Kyphosus vaigiensis | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Actinopterygii | 
| Order: | Perciformes | 
| Family: | Kyphosidae | 
| Subfamily: | Kyphosinae Jordan, 1887[1]  | 
| Genus: | Kyphosus Lacépède, 1801[2]  | 
| Type species | |
| Kyphosus bigibbus Lacépède, 1801[2]  | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
Species
    
There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:
- Kyphosus analogus (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Blue-bronze sea chub)
 - Kyphosus atlanticus K. Sakai & Nakabo, 2014 (Caribbean sea chub)[6]
 - Kyphosus azureus (O. P. Jenkins & Evermann, 1889) (Zebra-perch sea chub)
 - Kyphosus bigibbus Lacépède, 1801 (Brown chub)
 - Kyphosus bosquii (Lacépède, 1802) (Bermuda sea chub)[6]
 - Kyphosus cinerascens (Forsskål, 1775) (Blue sea chub)
 - Kyphosus cornelii (Whitley, 1944) (Western buffalo bream)
 - Kyphosus elegans (W. K. H. Peters, 1869) (Cortez sea chub)
 - Kyphosus gladius Knudsen & Clements, 2013 (Gladius sea chub)
 - Kyphosus hawaiiensis K. Sakai & Nakabo, 2004 (Hawaiian chub)
 - Kyphosus incisor (G. Cuvier, 1831) (Yellow sea chub)
 - Kyphosus ocyurus (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882) (Blue-striped chub)
 - Kyphosus pacificus K. Sakai & Nakabo, 2004 (Pacific chub)
 - Kyphosus sectatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) (Bermuda chub)
 - Kyphosus sydneyanus (Günther, 1886) (Silver drummer)
 - Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Brassy chub)
 
Some of the above species have now been synonymised with others within the genus; K. analogus and K. incisor with K. viagiensis, K. atlanticus and K. pacificus with K. sectatrix while K. bosquii is synonymised with K. bigibbus.[7]
References
    
- Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
 - Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Kyphosus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
 - Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Kyphosidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
 - Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Kyphosus in FishBase. December 2019 version.
 - J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 440. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
 - Sakai, K. & Nakabo, T. (2014): Taxonomic review of Kyphosus (Pisces: Kyphosidae) in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans. Ichthyological Research, 61 (3): 265-292.
 - Steen Wilhelm Knudsen & Kendall D. Clements (2013). "Revision of the Fish Family Kyphosidae". Zootaxa. 3751: 1–101. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3751.1.1.
 
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