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Bodianus

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Bodianus
Temporal range: 14–0 Ma
Middle Miocene to present[1]
Bodianus loxozonus
Bodianus perditio
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Bodianus

Bloch, 1790
Type species
Bodianus bodianus
Bloch, 1790

Bodianus or the hogfishes is a genus of fish in the family Labridae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. These species have many parasites.[2]

Species

There are currently 45 recognized species in this genus:

References

  1. ^ Sepkoski, J.J.Jr (2002): A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera. Archived February 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Bulletins of American Paleontology, 363: 1-560.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Bodianus in FishBase. June 2016 version.
  3. ^ Randall, J.E. & Victor, B.C. (2013): Bodianus atrolumbus (Valenciennes 1839), a valid species of labrid fish from the southwest Indian Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 13: 44–61.
  4. ^ Gomon, M.F. & Walsh, F. (2016): A new pygmy hogfish (Labridae: Bodianus) of the subgenus Trochocopus from the tropical southern Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 23: 12-20.