Lagusia micracanthus

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Terapontidae
Genus: Lagusia
Species: Lagusia micracanthus

Name

Lagusia micracanthus (Bleeker, 1860: 55)

Syntypes: RMNH 5632 (3).

Type locality: Lagusi, Sulawesi, Indonesia. in rivers.

Synonyms

Datnia micracanthus Bleeker, 1860: 55 (original description; type locality: Celebes [= Sulawesi], Lagusi in fluviis [= Lagusi, in rivers]).
Therapon (Datnia) micracanthus Bleeker, 1873: 388 (shift to genus Therapon; based on type series; Lagusi, in rivers)—Bleeker, 1873–1876: 117, pl. 62, Fig. 1 (Celebes, Lagusi in rivers).
Therapon micracanthus Weber, 1894: 408, 434, 447 (Celebes: Amparang Fluss, südlich von Balangnipa; Fluss Minralang bei Tempe, Fluss Tjenrana bei Pampanua);Weber & de Beaufort, 1931: 153 (Celebes: same locations as Weber, 1894); Mees, 1971: 218 (meristics; comments on taxonomy of Fowler [1931, 1934] and species distribution).
Terapon micracanthus Fowler, 1931: 342 (in part; prior citations of Datnia micracanthus; not synonymy of Therapon trimaculatus Macleay, and Therapon habbemai Weber, into Terapon micracanthus; not species description or cited occurrence of species in southern drainages of New Guinea); Fowler, 1934: 416 (in part; original record of Datnia micracanthus; not synonymy of Therapon trimaculatus Macleay, and Therapon habbemai Weber, into Terapon micracanthus; not occurrence in Goldie River, New Guinea; not cited maximum length).
Papuservus micracanthus Munro, 1958: 170 (in part; not synonymy of Therapon trimaculatus Macleay, and of Therapon habbemai Weber, into Papuservus micracanthus; not cited occurrence in Goldie, Lorentz, Mimika, and Fly Rivers of New Guinea).
Lagusia micracanthus: Vari, 1978: 247, Fig. 42 (redescription based on syntypes; southern peninsula of Sulawesi; transfer to Lagusia)—Kottelat et al., 1993: 107, pl. 51 (meristics; Sulawesi).

References

Bleeker, P. 1860: Dertiende bijdrage tot de kennis der vischfauna van Celebes (Visschen van Bonthain, Badjoa, Sindjai, Lagoesi en Pompenoea). Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae, 8(art. 7): 1–60.
Vari, R.P. 1978: The terapon perches (Percoidei, Teraponidae). A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 159(art. 5): 175–340.
Vari, R.P. & R.K. Hadiaty 2012: The endemic Sulawesi fish genus Lagusia (Teleostei: Terapontidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 60(1): 157–162. pdf.