Albula (fish)

Albula is a genus of fish belonging to the bonefish family Albulidae.

Albula
Bonefish, A. vulpes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Albuliformes
Family:
Albulidae
Genus:
Albula

Gronow 1763 ex Scopoli 1777 non Osbeck 1765 non Bloch & Schneider 1801 non Catesby 1771
Synonyms
  • Atopichthys Garman 1899
  • Butyrinus Commerson ex Lacépède 1803
  • Dixonina Fowler 1911
  • Albula (Dixonina) (Fowler 1911)
  • Esunculus Kaup 1856
  • Glossodonta Cuvier 1815
  • Glossodus Agassiz 1828 ex Spix & Agassiz 1829 non Costa 1853 non McCoy 1848
  • Metalbula Frizzell 1965
  • Pisodus Owen 1841
  • Vulpis Catesby 1771
  • Conorynchus Nozemann 1758 ex Gill 1861 non Bleeker 1863 non Motschousky 1860

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) (bonefish)
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References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Albula in FishBase. December 2012 version.
  2. 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.
  3. Kwun, H.J. & Kim, J.K. (2011): A new species of bonefish, Albula koreana (Albuliformes: Albulidae) from Korea and Taiwan. Zootaxa, 2903: 57–63.
  4. 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.
  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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