Kyphosus cinerascens

Familia: Kyphosidae
Subfamilia: Kyphosinae
Genus: Kyphosus
Species: Kyphosus cinerascens

Kyphosus cinerascens

Taxonavigation: Terapontoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Eupercaria Ordo: Centrarchiformes Subordo: Terapontoidei

Name

Kyphosus cinerascens (Forsskål, 1775)

• Neotype: MNHN A-1993.
  • Neotype designated by Sakai & Nakabo (2006)

Type locality: Red Sea.

Synonymy

• Sciaena cinerascens Forsskål, 1775
• Pimelepterus cinerascens (Forsskål, 1775) -- Day, 1870
• Cyphosus cinerascens (Forsskål, 1775) -- Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914
• Pimelepterus tahmel Rüppell, 1835
  • Pimelopterus tahmel (Rüppell, 1835) -- Klunzinger, 1870
  • Opisthistius tahmel (Rüppell, 1835) -- Gill, 1862
• Cantharus maculatus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830
• Pimelepterus raynaldi Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1831
• Pimelepterus indicus Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1831
  • Kyphosus indicus (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1831) -- Jordan & Snyder, 1901
• Pimelepterus dussumieri Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1831
• Pimelepterus altipinnis Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1831
• Pimelepterus altipinnoides Guichenot, 1863
• Scorpis vinosa Alleyne & Macleay, 1877
• Pachymetopon squamosum Alleyne & Macleay, 1877
  • Opisthistius squamosus (Alleyne & Macleay, 1877) -- Whitley, 1931

Vernacular names

English: highfin chub, blue chub, topsail chub, high fin rudderfish
ไทย: ปลาสีนวล, ปลากะพงสลิดลายน้ำเงิน, ปลาสลิดทะเลน้ำเงิน

References

• Forsskål, P. S.; 1775: Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae. 1-20 + i-xxxiv + 1-164, map.

• Knudsen, S.W. & Clements, K.D. 2013. Revision of the fish family Kyphosidae (Teleostei: Perciformes). Zootaxa 3751(1): 1–101. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3751.1.1 Reference page. 
• Sakai, K. & Nakabo, T. 2006. Taxonomic reviews of two Indo-Pacific sea chubs, Kyphosus cinerascens (Forsskál, 1775) and Kyphosus sydneyanus (Günther, 1886). Ichthyological Research 53(4): 337–356. Reference page. 

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