Pseudotolithus
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| Pseudotolithus | |
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| Pseudotolithus epipercus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Sciaenidae |
| Genus: | Pseudotolithus Bleeker, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Pseudotolithus typus Bleeker, 1863[1] | |
| Species | |
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Several, see text | |
Pseudotolithus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums or croakers. The species in this genus are found in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean.
Pseudotolithus was first proposed as a genus in 1863 by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker when he described the new species P. brachygnathus, P. epipercus and P. typus.[2] P. typus was designated as the type species by virtue of being named typus.[1] Ethelwynn Trewavas placed the eastern Atlantic Afrotropical sciaenids, Pseudotolithus and Pteroscion, in the tribe Pseudotolithini.[3] Other workers have placed this tribe in the subfamily Pseudotolithinae alongside the tribe Miracorvini, Miracorvina and Pentheroscion.[4] However, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise tribes or subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes.[5]
Etymology
Species
Pseudotolithus has the following valid species classified within it:[7]
- Pseudotolithus brachygnathus Bleeker, 1863[8]
- Pseudotolithus elongatus (Bowdich, 1825) (bobo croaker)
- Pseudotolithus epipercus (Bleeker, 1863) (Guinea croaker)
- Pseudotolithus moorii (Günther, 1865) (Cameroon croaker)
- Pseudotolithus senegalensis (Valenciennes, 1833) (cassava croaker)
- Pseudotolithus senegallus (Cuvier, 1830) (law croaker)
- Pseudotolithus typus (Bleeker, 1863) (longneck croaker)
