Selene (fish)
Appearance
Selene | |
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Lookdown (S. vomer) | |
Hairfin lookdown (S. brevoorti), frontal view | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Carangiformes |
Family: | Carangidae |
Subfamily: | Caranginae |
Genus: | Selene Lacépède, 1802 |
Type species | |
Selene argentea Lacepède, 1802[1]
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Synonyms[2] | |
Selene is a genus of carangids, commonly known as lookdowns and moonfishes, native to the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Species
There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Selene brevoortii (T. N. Gill, 1863) (Hairfin lookdown)
- Selene brownii (G. Cuvier, 1816) (Caribbean moonfish)
- Selene dorsalis (T. N. Gill, 1863) (African moonfish)
- Selene orstedii Lütken, 1880 (Mexican moonfish)
- Selene peruviana (Guichenot, 1866) (Peruvian moonfish)
- Selene setapinnis (Mitchill, 1815) (Atlantic moonfish)
- Selene spixii (Castelnau, 1855)
- Selene vomer (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lookdown)
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Selene". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Carangidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). Species of Selene in FishBase. October 2015 version.