Snyderina
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| Snyderina | |
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| S. yamanokami | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Scorpaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Tetraroginae |
| Genus: | Snyderina D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1901 |
| Type species | |
| Snyderina yamanokami D.S. Jordan & Starks, 1901[1] | |
Snyderina is a genus of ray-finned fishes, waspfishes belonging to the subfamily Tetraroginae, which is classified as part of the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives. These fishes are found in the western Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Snyderina was first described as a genus in 1901 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks, Jordan and Starks described it as a monotypic genus for their newly described Snyderina yamanokami from Kagoshima on Kyushu in Japan.[1][2] Later the western Indian Ocean species, Tetraroge guentheri, which had been described in 1889 by the Belgian born British ichthyologist George Albert Boulenger, was also classified within Snyderina.[2] This genus is included in the subfamily Tetraroginae within the Scorpaenidae in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World[3] however other authorities place that subfamily within the stonefish family Synanceiidae,[1] while other authorities classify this subfamily as a family in its own right.[4] The genus name Snyderina honours Jordan and Starks' fellow American ichthyologist John Otterbein Snyder for his studies nof Japanese fishes.[5]
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[4]
- Snyderina guentheri (Boulenger, 1889) (Günther's waspfish)
- Snyderina yamanokami D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1901