Pempheris

Pempheris is a genus of sweepers native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.[3]

Pempheris
Pempheris japonica
Pempheris rhomboidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Pempheridae
Genus:	Pempheris G. Cuvier, 1829[1]
Type species
Pempheris touea G. Cuvier, 1829[1]
Synonyms[2]
Catalufa Snyder, 1911 Liopempheris Ogilby, 1913 Priacanthopsis Fowler, 1906

Pempheris vanicolensis (front)

Species

There are currently more than 70 recognized species in this genus:

• Pempheris adspersa Griffin, 1927 (New Zealand bigeye)
• Pempheris adusta Bleeker, 1877 (Dusky sweeper)
• Pempheris affinis McCulloch, 1911 (Black-tipped sweeper)
• Pempheris analis Waite, 1910 (Bronze sweeper)
• Pempheris andilana J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris argyrea J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris bexillon Mooi & J. E. Randall, 2014[5]
• Pempheris bineeshi J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris bruggemanni J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris compressa (J. White, 1790) (Small-scale sweeper)
• Pempheris connelli J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris convexa J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014[6]
• Pempheris cuprea J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014[6]
• Pempheris darvelli J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014[6]
• Pempheris eatoni J. E. Randall & Victor, 2014[6]
• Pempheris ellipse J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris familia Koeda & Motomura, 2017
• Pempheris flavicycla J. E. Randall, Satapoomin & Alpermann, 2013[7]
  • P. f. flavicycla J. E. Randall, Satapoomin & Alpermann, 2013 (Yellow-eye sweeper)[7]
  • P. f. marisrubri J. E. Randall, Bogorodsky & Alpermann, 2013[7]
• Pempheris gasparinii H. T. Pinheiro, Bernardi & L. A. Rocha, 2016 (Trindade sweeper)[8]
• Pempheris hadra J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris heemstraorum J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris hollemani J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris ibo J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris japonica Döderlein (de), 1883
• Pempheris klunzingeri McCulloch, 1911 (Klunzinger's sweeper)
• Pempheris kruppi J. E. Randall, Victor & Aideed, 2015[4]
• Pempheris kuriamuria J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris leiolepis J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris malabarica G. Cuvier, 1831[9]
• Pempheris mangula G. Cuvier, 1829 (Black-edged sweeper)
• Pempheris megalops J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris micromma J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris molucca G. Cuvier, 1829
• Pempheris multiradiata Klunzinger, 1879 (Common sweeper)
• Pempheris muscat J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris nesogallica G. Cuvier, 1831[10]
• Pempheris nyctereutes D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1902
• Pempheris orbis J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris ornata Mooi & R. N. Jubb, 1996 (Orange-lined sweeper)
• Pempheris otaitensis G. Cuvier, 1831
• Pempheris oualensis G. Cuvier, 1831 (Silver sweeper)
• Pempheris pathirana J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris peza J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris poeyi T. H. Bean, 1885 (Curved sweeper)
• Pempheris rapa Mooi, 1998
• Pempheris rhomboidea Kossman & Räuber, 1877 (Dusky sweeper)[10]
• Pempheris rochai J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris rubricauda J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris russellii F. Day, 1888[10]
• Pempheris sarayu J. E. Randall & Bineesh, 2014[9]
• Pempheris schomburgkii J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1848 (Glassy sweeper)
• Pempheris schreineri A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915
• Pempheris schwenkii Bleeker, 1855 (Black-stripe sweeper)
• Pempheris sergey J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris shimoni J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris shirleen J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris smithorum J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris tau J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris ternay J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris tilman J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris tiran J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris tominagai Koeda, Yoshino & Tachihara, 2014[11]
• Pempheris trinco J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris ufuagari Koeda, Yoshino & Tachihara, 2013 (Crown sweeper)
• Pempheris vanicolensis G. Cuvier, 1831 (Vanikoro sweeper)
• Pempheris viridis J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris wilsoni J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris xanthomma J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]
• Pempheris xanthoptera Tominaga, 1963
• Pempheris ypsilychnus Mooi & R. N. Jubb, 1996 (Ypsilon sweeper)
• Pempheris zajonzi J. E. Randall & Victor, 2015[4]

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Pempheris". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Pempheridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Pempheris in FishBase. June 2017 version.
4. Randall, J.E. & Victor, B.C. (2015). "Descriptions of thirty-four new species of the fish genus Pempheris (Perciformes: Pempheridae), with a key to the species of the western Indian Ocean" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 18: 1–77.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
5. Mooi, R.D. & Randall, J.E. (2014): Pempheris bexillon, a new species of sweeper (Teleostei: Pempheridae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 3780 (2): 388–398.
6. Randall, J.E. & Victor, B.C. (2014): Four new fishes of the genus Pempheris (Perciformes: Pempheridae) from the western Indian Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 12: 61-83.
7. Randall, J.E., Bogorodsky, S.V., Alpermann, T.J., Satapoomin, U., Mooi, R.D. & Mal, A.O. (2013): Pempheris flavicycla, a new pempherid fish from the Indian Ocean, previously identified as P. vanicolensis Cuvier. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 9: 1-23.
8. Pinheiro, H.T., Bernardi, G. & Rocha, L.A. (2016): Pempheris gasparinii, a new species of sweeper fish from Trindade Island, southwestern Atlantic (Teleostei, Pempheridae). ZooKeys, 561: 105-115.
9. Randall, J.E. & Bineesh, K.K. (2014): Review of the fishes of the genus Pempheris (Perciformes: Pempheridae) of India, with description of a new species and a neotype for P. mangula Cuvier. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 10: 20-40.
10. Randall, J.E., Victor, B.C., Alpermann, T.J., Bogorodsky, S.V., Mal, A.O., Satapoomin, U. & Bineesh, K.K. (2014): Rebuttal to Koeda et al. (2014) on the Red Sea fishes of the perciform genus Pempheris. Zootaxa, 3887 (3): 377–392.
11. Koeda, K., Yoshino, T., Imai, H. & Tachihara, K. (2014): A review of the genus Pempheris (Perciformes, Pempheridae) of the Red Sea, with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 3793 (3): 301–330.