Pennahia
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| Pennahia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Sciaenidae |
| Genus: | Pennahia Fowler, 1926 |
| Type species | |
| Otolithus macrophthalmus | |
Pennahia is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. The fishes in this genus are found in the Indo-West Pacific region.
Pennahia was first proposed as a subgenus of Johnius in 1926 by the American ichthyologist Henry Weed Fowler with Otolithus macrophthalmus, which had been described by Pieter Bleeker in 1849 from Jakarta, as the type species. O. macropthalmus was later shown to be synonymous with Johnius aneus, a species described by Marcus Elieser Bloch from Malabar in 1793.[1][2] This genus has been placed in the subfamily Otolithinae by some workers,[3] but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes.[4]
Etymology
Pennahia derives from pinnah, a local Tamil name for the type species.[5]
Species
Pennahia contains the following recognised species:[6]
- Pennahia aneus (Bloch, 1793) (Donkey croaker)
- Pennahia argentata (Houttuyn, 1782) (Silver croaker)
- Pennahia macrocephalus (Tang, 1937) (Big-head pennah croaker)
- Pennahia ovata Sasaki, 1996
- Pennahia pawak (Lin, 1940) (Pawak croaker)