Hyporthodus

Hyporthodus
Hyporthodus nigritus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Serranidae
Subfamily:	Epinephelinae
Tribe:	Epinephelini
Genus:	Hyporthodus Gill, 1861
Type species
Hyporthodus flavicauda Gill, 1861[1]
Synonyms[2]
Schistorus Gill, 1862 Serrihastaperca Fowler, 1944

Hyporthodus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, groupers from the subfamily Epinephelinae, part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses.^[3] It contains the following species, most of which were previously placed in Epinephelus:^[4][5]

• Hyporthodus acanthistius (Gilbert, 1892)
• Hyporthodus ergastularius (Whitley, 1930)
• Hyporthodus exsul (Fowler, 1944)
• Hyporthodus flavolimbatus (Poey, 1865)

• Hyporthodus griseofasciatus Glenn I. Moore, Corey B. Wakefield, Joseph D. DiBattista and Stephen J. Newman. 2022^[6]

• Hyporthodus haifensis (Ben-Tuvia, 1953)
• Hyporthodus mystacinus (Poey, 1852)
• Hyporthodus nigritus (Holbrook, 1855)
• Hyporthodus niphobles (Gilbert & Starks, 1897)
• Hyporthodus niveatus (Valenciennes, 1828)
• Hyporthodus octofasciatus (Griffin, 1926)
• Hyporthodus perplexus (Randall, Hoese & Last, 1991)
• Hyporthodus quernus (Seale, 1901)
• Hyporthodus septemfasciatus (Thunberg, 1793)

Phylogenetic tree of Hyporthodus species based on COI barcoding sequences

A molecular analysis has shown that most species of Hyporthodus can be identified on the basis of COI barcoding sequences.^[7]

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Hyporthodus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Epinephelinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
3. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Hyporthodus". Marinespecies.org. 2008-02-21. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
4. Craig, Matthew T.; Hastings, Philip A. (2007). "A molecular phylogeny of the groupers of the subfamily Epinephelinae (Serranidae) with a revised classification of the Epinephelini". Ichthyological Research. 54 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1007/s10228-006-0367-x. ISSN 1341-8998.
5. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Hyporthodus". FishBase. December 2019 version.
6. Glenn I. Moore, Corey B. Wakefield, Joseph D. DiBattista and Stephen J. Newman. 2022. Hyporthodus griseofasciatus (Perciformes: Epinephelidae), A New Species of Deep-water Grouper from the west coast of Australia. Journal of Fish Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15231
7. Chaabane, Amira; Justine, Jean-Lou; Gey, Delphine; Bakenhaster, Micah D.; Neifar, Lassad (2016). "Pseudorhabdosynochus sulamericanus (Monogenea, Diplectanidae), a parasite of deep-sea groupers (Serranidae) occurs transatlantically on three congeneric hosts (Hyporthodus spp.), one from the Mediterranean Sea and two from the western Atlantic". PeerJ. 4: e2233. doi:10.7717/peerj.2233. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 4991870. PMID 27602259.

External links

• Media related to Hyporthodus at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Hyporthodus at Wikispecies