Gymnocranius audleyi
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| Gymnocranius audleyi | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Lethrinidae |
| Genus: | Gymnocranius |
| Species: | G. audleyi |
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| Gymnocranius audleyi J. D. Ogilby, 1916 | |
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Gymnocranius audleyi, the collared large-eye bream, collar bream, bastard bream, coral bream, iodine bream, pale-faced bream or sand snapper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lethrinidae, the emperors and emperor breams. This species is found in the Western Pacific Ocean.
Gymnocranius audleyi was first formally described in 1916 by the Australian herpetologist and ichthyologist James Douglas Ogilby with its type locality given as Snapper Banks off Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia.[3] Some authors place the genus Gymnocranius in the subfamily Monotaxinae but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise the subfamilies traditionally accepted within the family Lethrinidae as valid. The family Lethrinidae is classified by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World as belonging to the order Spariformes.[4]
Etymology
Gymnocranius audleyi has a specific name which honours Ogilby's friend Audley Raymond Jones, to whom Ogilby was "indebted for much interesting information regarding the habits of fishes".[5]