Bodianus

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Bodianus is a genus of fishes in the family of wrasses, the Labridae, which are commonly known as hogfishes. They are found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. These species have many parasites.[4][not in body]

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Bodianus
Temporal range: 14–0 Ma
Middle Miocene to present[1]
Bodianus loxozonus
Bodianus perditio
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Subfamily: Hypsigenyinae
Genus: Bodianus
Bloch, 1790
Type species
Bodianus bodianus
Bloch, 1790[2]
Synonyms[3]
List
  • Chaeropsodes Gilchrist & Thompson, 1909
  • Cheiliopsis Steindachner 1863
  • Clepticus G. Cuvier, 1829
  • Cossyphus Valenciennes, 1839
  • Diastodon Bowdich, 1825
  • Euhypsocara Gill, 1863
  • Gymnopropoma Gill, 1863
  • Harpe Lacepède, 1802
  • Lepidaplois Gill, 1862
  • Paralepidaplois Gomon, 2006
  • Peneverreo Gomon, 2006
  • Pimelometopon T. N. Gill, 1864
  • PriobodianusGomon, 2006
  • Pseudolepidaplois Bauchot & Blanc, 1961
  • Ronchifex Gistel, 1848
  • Semicossyphus Günther, 1861
  • Trochocopus Günther, 1862
  • Verreo Jordan & Snyder, 1902
  • Verriculus Jordan & Evermann, 1903
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Taxonomy

Bodianus belongs to the wrasse tribe Hypsigenyini. Gomon (2006) split up the species in Bodianus amongst 10 subgenera. However, these subclassifications of Bodianus only roughly line up with findings of more recent phylogenetic analyses.[5]

The three species B. darwini, B. pulcher, and B. reticulatus, commonly called the sheephead wrasses, have traditionally formed their own genus Semicossyphus. Although at least the latter two species form a monophyletic lineage with each other,[5] Semicossyphus has subsequently been synonymized with Bodianus, as molecular phylogenetics found that Semicossyphus is nested deep within Bodianus.[5][6][7]

Similarly, Clepticus parrae and likely all Clepticus species also nest within Bodianus.[5]

Species

B. atrolumbus
B. pulchellus
B. pulcher & B. reticulatus, formerly Semicossyphus.

Currently, 45 species are recognized in this genus:

References

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