Albula (fish)
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| Genus: | Albula Gronow 1763 ex Scopoli 1777 non Osbeck 1765 non Bloch & Schneider 1801 non Catesby 1771
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Albula is a genus of fish belonging to the bonefish family Albulidae.
Species
The 11 currently recognized living species in this genus are:[1]
- Albula argentea (Forster 1801) (silver sharpjaw bonefish)
- †Albula bartonensis Schedl 1933
- †Albula bashiana (Frizzell 1965) [Metalbula bashiana Frizzell 1965]
- †Albula campaniana Nolf & Stringer 1996
- †Albula dunklei Applegate 1970
- †Albula eppsi White & Frost 1931
- Albula esuncula (Garman 1899) (Eastern Pacific bonefish)
- Albula gilberti Pfeiler, van der Heiden, Ruboyianes & Watts, 2011 [2] (Cortez bonefish)
- Albula glossodonta (Forsskål, 1775) (Roundjaw/shortjaw bonefish)
- Albula goreensis Valenciennes, 1847 (West African bonefish)
- Albula koreana Kwun & Kim, 2011 [3] (Korean bonefish)
- Albula nemoptera (Fowler, 1911) (Threadfin bonefish)
- Albula oligolepis Hidaka, Iwatsuki & Randall, 2008 (Smallscale bonefish) [4] (Smallscale bonefish)
- †Albula oweni (Agassiz 1844) [Pisodus owenii Agassiz 1844; Pisodus owenii Agassiz 1844]
- Albula pacifica (Beebe, 1942) (Pacific shafted bonefish)[5] (Pacific shafted bonefish)
- Albula virgata Jordan & Jordan, 1922 (Longjaw bonefish)
- Albula vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) (West Atlantic Bonefish)
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Albula in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ^ Pfeiler, E., Van Der Heiden, A.M., Ruboyianes, R.S., & Watts, T. (2011). Albula gilberti, a new species of bone fish (Albuliformes: Albulidae) from the eastern Pacific, and a description of adults of the parapatric A. esuncula. Zootaxa 3088: 1-14.
- ^ Kwun, H.J. & Kim, J.K. (2011): A new species of bonefish, Albula koreana (Albuliformes: Albulidae) from Korea and Taiwan. Zootaxa, 2903: 57–63.
- ^ Hidaka, Iwatsuki & Randall (2008). "A review of the Indo-Pacific bonefishes of the Albula argentea complex, with a description of a new species". Ichthyological Research. 55 (1): 53–64. doi:10.1007/s10228-007-0010-5.
- ^ Pfeiler, E., 2008. Resurrection of the name Albula pacifica (Beebe, 1942) for the shafted bonefish (Albuliformes: Albulidae) from the eastern Pacific. Rev. Biol. Trop. 56(2):839-844.
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