Oligoplites

Oligoplites is a genus of carangid leatherjackets native to warmer seas off the Americas, including the East Pacific, West Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

Oligoplites
Leatherjacket (O. saurus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Family: Carangidae
Subfamily: Scomberoidinae
Genus: Oligoplites
T. N. Gill, 1863
Type species
Gasterosteus occidentalis
Linnaeus, 1758

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

  • Oligoplites altus (Günther, 1868) (longjaw leatherjacket)
  • Oligoplites palometa (G. Cuvier, 1832) (Maracaibo leatherjacket)
  • Oligoplites refulgens C. H. Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (shortjaw leatherjacket)
  • Oligoplites saliens (Bloch, 1793) (Castin leatherjacket)
  • Oligoplites saurus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (leatherjacket)
gollark: 🦀I think argon2 is trendy for those🦀
gollark: 🦀Reminder to use different hash functions/things for passwords🦀
gollark: 🦀But SHA-3 is cooler!🦀
gollark: 🦀SHA-3 is cool and trendy still, right?🦀
gollark: Sounds impractical.

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Oligoplites in FishBase. February 2013 version.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.