Nibea
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| Illustrated plate of Nibea soldado by George Henry Ford. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Sciaenidae |
| Genus: | Nibea Jordan & Thompson, 1911 |
| Type species | |
| Pseudotolithus mitsukurii Jordan & Snyder, 1900
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Nibea is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. The species in this genus are found in the Indo-West Pacific region.
Taxonomy[edit]
Nibea was first proposed as a genus in 1911 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan & William Francis Thompson with Pseudotolithus mitsukurii designated as its type species.[1] P. mitsukurii had originally been described in 1900 by Jordan and John Otterbein Snyder with its type locality given as Tokyo Bay, Japan.[2] This taxon has been placed in the subfamily Otolithinae by some workers,[3] but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes.[4]
Etymology[edit]
Nibea is derived from a Japanese word referring to large Sciaenids and for the isinglass, manufactured from their swim bladders, used in binding bamboo rods together.[5]
Species[edit]
Nibea contains ten accepted species:[6]
- Nibea albiflora (Richardson, 1846) (Yellow drum)
- Nibea chui Trewavas, 1971 (Chu's croaker)
- Nibea coibor (Hamilton, 1822)
- Nibea leptolepis (Ogilby, 1918) (Smallscale croaker)
- Nibea maculata (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Blotched croaker)
- Nibea microgenys Sasaki, 1992 (Small-jaw croaker)
- Nibea mitsukurii (Jordan & Snyder, 1900) (Honnibe croaker)
- Nibea semifasciata Chu, Lo & Wu, 1963 (Sharpnose croaker)
- Nibea soldado (Lacépède, 1802) (Soldier croaker)
- Nibea squamosa Sasaki, 1992 (Scale croaker)
Characteristics[edit]
Nibea croakers have the first pair of pores on the chin set closely together, immediately to the rear of the symphysis of the lower jaw, and connected by a crescent-shaped groove. The teeth in the lower jaw are not uniform in size. The swim bladder has a shape like a carrot and has branched appendages along the whole of both its sides and the most forward of these goes through the transverse septum.[7] The type species is the largest member of the genus, with a maximum published standard length of 75 cm (30 in) while the smallscale croaker (N. leptolepis) with a maximum published standard length of 22 cm (8.7 in) is the smallest member.[6]
Distribution[edit]
Nibea croakers are found in the Indo-Pacific region from Pakistan[7] east to New Guinea, south to Australia and north to Japan.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Sciaenidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Nibea". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
- ^ Kunio Sasaki (1989). "Phylogeny of the family Sciaenidae, with notes on its Zoogeography (Teleostei, Peciformes)" (PDF). Memoirs of the Faculty of Fishes Hokkaido University. 36 (1–2): 1–137.
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 497–502. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (9 March 2023). "Series Eupercaria (Incertae sedis): Families Callanthidae, Centrogenyidae, Dinopercidae, Emmelichthyidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Parascorpididae, Sciaenidae and Sillagidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ a b c Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). Species of Nibea in FishBase. February 2023 version.
- ^ a b Kunio Sasaki (2022). "Family Sciaenidae Croakers, Drums and Cobs". In Phillip C Heemstra; Elaine Heemstra; David A Ebert; Wouter Holleman; John E Randall (eds.). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean Volume 3 (PDF). South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. pp. 389–414. ISBN 978-1-990951-30-5.