Oxycheilinus

Oxycheilinus is a genus of fish in the family Labridae found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean.[2]

Oxycheilinus
Oxycheilinus bimaculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Oxycheilinus
T. N. Gill, 1862
Type species
Cheilinus arenatus
Valenciennes, 1840[1]

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:

  • Oxycheilinus arenatus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Speckled maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus bimaculatus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Two-spot maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus celebicus (Bleeker, 1853) (Celebes maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus digramma (Lacépède, 1801) (Cheek-lined maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus lineatus J. E. Randall, Westneat & M. F. Gomon, 2003
  • Oxycheilinus mentalis (Rüppell, 1828) (Mental maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus nigromarginatus J. E. Randall, Westneat & M. F. Gomon, 2003 (Black-margin maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus orientalis (Günther, 1862) (Oriental maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus samurai Y. Fukui, Muto & Motomura, 2016 [3]
  • Oxycheilinus unifasciatus (Streets, 1877) (Ringtail maori wrasse)

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Oxycheilinus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Oxycheilinus in FishBase. October 2016 version.
  3. Fukui, Y., Muto, N. & Motomura, H. (2016): A new species of labrid fish Oxycheilinus samurai from the western Pacific Ocean. Ichthyological Research, 64 (2): 212-220.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.