Chelon
Chelon is a genus of mullets found in coastal marine waters, estuaries and rivers in the Atlantic Ocean and western Indian Ocean.
| Chelon | |
|---|---|
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| Thicklip Grey Mullet (C. labrosus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Mugiliformes |
| Family: | Mugilidae |
| Genus: | Chelon Artedi, 1793[1] |
| Type species | |
| Mugil chelo | |
Taxonomy
Recent cladistic analysis recovered Chelon as paraphyletic with respect to Liza, so some species of Liza were reassigned to Chelon and Liza synonymized with Chelon.[3][4]
Species
The following species are classified in the genus Chelon:[5]
- Chelon aurata (A. Risso, 1810) (Golden grey mullet)
- Chelon bandialensis Diouf, 1991 (Diassanga mullet)
- Chelon bispinosus (S. Bowdich, 1825) (Cape Verde mullet)
- Chelon dumerili (Steindachner, 1870) (Grooved mullet)
- Chelon labrosus (A. Risso, 1827) (Thicklip grey mullet)
- Chelon parsia (Hamilton, 1822) (Goldspot mullet)
- Chelon ramada (A. Risso, 1827) (Thinlip grey mullet)
- Chelon richardsonii (A. Smith, 1846) (South African mullet)
- Chelon saliens (A. Risso, 1810) (Leaping mullet)
- Chelon tricuspidens (J. L. B. Smith, 1935) (Striped mullet)
See also
References
- Artedi P. (1793). Ichth., syn., 118.
- Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Chelon". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- Durand, J.-D., Shen, K.-N., Chen, W.-J., Jamandre, B.-W., Blel, H., Diop, K., et al. 2012. Systematics of the grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugiliformes: Mugilidae): molecular phylogenetic evidence challenges two centuries of morphology-based taxonomy. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 64, 73–92. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.006
- Durand, J.-D., W.-J. Chen, K.-N. Shen, C. Fu, & P. Borsa. 2012. Genus-level taxonomic changes implied b mitochondrial phylogeny of grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugilidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies, 335: 687-697.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Chelon in FishBase. June 2018 version.
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