Argyrops
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| Argyrops | |
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| Argyrops spinifer | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Sparidae |
| Genus: | Argyrops Swainson, 1839 |
| Type species | |
| Sparus spinifer | |
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Argyrops is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sparidae, the seabreams and porgies. These fishes are found in the coasts of Indian Ocean and near Australia.
Argyrops was first formally proposed as a subgenus of Chrysophrys by the English zoologist William Swainson with its type species, by monotypy, being Sparus spinifer. S. spinifer had been described in 1775 by Peter Forsskål with its type locality given as Jeddah. This genus is placed in the family Sparidae within the order Spariformes by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World.[2] Some authorities classify this genus in the subfamily Sparinae,[3] but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Sparidae.[2]
Etymology
Argyrops was not explained by Swainson but is may combine argyros, meaning "silver", and ops, meaning "face", the type species has a silvery lower jaw.[4]
Species
Argyrops contains the following species:[5]
- Argyrops bleekeri Oshima, 1927 (Taiwan tai)
- Argyrops caeruleops Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2018 (Bluesnout soldierbream)
- Argyrops filamentosus (Valenciennes, 1830) (Soldierbream)
- Argyrops flavops Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2018 (Yellow-snout soldierbream)
- Argyrops megalommatus (Klunzinger, 1870) (Red Sea soldierbream)
- Argyrops notialis Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2018 (Australian soldierbream)
- Argyrops spinifer (Forsskål, 1775) (King soldierbream)