Erythrocles
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| Erythrocles | |
|---|---|
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| Japanese rubyfish (E. schlegelii) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Emmelichthyidae |
| Genus: | Erythrocles D. S. Jordan, 1919 |
| Type species | |
| Emmelichthys schlegelii J. Richardson, 1846[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Erythrocles is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Emmelichthyidae, the rovers, bonnetmouths or rubyfishes. The fishes in this genus are found in the western Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Erythrocles was first proposed as a genus name in 1919 by the American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan as a replacement for Erythtichthys, a name proposed by Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Hermann Schlegel in 1845 but which was preoccupied by a name proposed by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1831 as an unnecessary replacement for the trahira genus Erythrinus Scopoli, 1777. Temminck and Schlegel did not add any species to the genus they described but John Richardson added one, Emmelichthys schlegelii, in 1846. In 1919 Jordan published his replacement name and confirmed Richardson's E. schlegelii as the type species.[1] The genus is classified in the small family Emmelichthyidae which is included in the order Acanthuriformes.[2]
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Erythrocles acarina Kotthaus, 1974
- Erythrocles microceps Miyahara & Okamura, 1998
- Erythrocles monodi Poll & Cadenat, 1954 – Atlantic rubyfish
- Erythrocles schlegelii (J. Richardson, 1846) – Japanese rubyfish
- Erythrocles scintillans (D. S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1912) – golden kali kali
- Erythrocles taeniatus J. E. Randall & Rivaton, 1992
