Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Authorship, publication dates and prevailing usage of names for some species of the genus Eucinostomus Baird et Girard, 1855 (Perciformes: Gerreidae)

  • Published:
Journal of Ichthyology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The genus Eucinostomus (commonly named mojarras or silver-biddies) proposed about 160 years ago, has one of the largest list of specific synonyms in the family Gerreidae. Since its diagnosis the specific composition of the genus has been controversial, being considered by some authors as the most diverse and taxonomically complicated group of the family in the Neotropics. Currently some confusion exists regarding the correct usage of names for various species. The purpose of this paper was to review and provide the arguments, based on the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, for correct use of names, authorship and publication dates of about half of the species considered valid within the genus.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Allen, G.R. and Robertson, D.R., Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific, Honolulu, USA: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1994.

    Google Scholar 

  • Baird, S.F., Fishes observed on the coast of New Jersey and Long Island during the summer of 1854, Annu. Rep. Smithson. Inst., 1855, vol. 9, no. 1854, pp. 317–337.

    Google Scholar 

  • Balart, P.E., Castro-Aguirre, J.L., and Torres, O.R., Ictiofauna de la Bahía de Ohuira, Topolobampo, Sinaloa, México, Rev. Inv. Mar. CICIMAR-IPN, 1992, vol. 7, pp. 91–103.

    Google Scholar 

  • Béarez, P., Lista de los peces marinos del Ecuador continental, Rev. Biol. Trop., 1996, vol. 44, pp.731–741.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bussing, W.A., Gerreidae, in Guía para la Identificación de Especies para los Fines de la Pesca, Pacífico Centro-Oriental Vertebrados-Parte 1, Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., et al.., Eds., Rome, Italy: FAO, 1995, vol. 2, pp. 114–1128.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bussing, W.A. and López, M.S., Peces demersales y pelágicos costeros del Pacífico de Centro América meridional. Guía Ilustrada, Rev. Biol. Trop., 1993, pp. 1–164.

    Google Scholar 

  • Castro-Aguirre, J.L., Catálogo Sistemático de los Peces Marinos que Penetran a las Aguas Continentales de México, con Aspectos Zoogeográcos y Ecológicos, Mexico: Inst. Nacl. Pesca, 1978.

    Google Scholar 

  • Castro-Aguirre, J.L., Espinosa-Pérez, H. S., and Schmiter-Soto, J.J., Ictiofauna Estuarino-Lagunar y Vicaria de México, Mexico: Limusa-Noriega, 1999.

    Google Scholar 

  • Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References, Eschmeyer, W.N., Ed., 2014. http://research.calacademy.org/. Accessed June 22, 2014.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chirichigno, N.F., Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Inf. Inst. Mar Perú, 1974, vol. 44, pp. 1–387.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cota-Gómez, V.M., De La Cruz-Agüero, G., García-Rodríguez, F.J., and De La Cruz-Agüero, J., Length — weight relations for 14 fish species of La Paz Bay, Baja California Sur, México, Acta Ichthyol. Piscatoria, 2013, vol. 43, pp. 297–298.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Curran, H.W., A systematic revision of the gerreid fishes referred to the genus Eucinostomus with a discussion of their distribution and speciation, Ph.D. Dissertation, Ann Arbor, USA: Univ. of Michigan, 1942.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cuvier, G. and Valenciennes, M., Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Paris, 1830, vol. 6, pp. 1–559.

    Google Scholar 

  • De La Cruz-Agüero, J., Sistemática y biogeografía de las especies del género Eucinostomus (Teleostei: Gerreidae), Ph.D. Dissertation, La Paz BCS, México: CICIMAR-IPN, 2001. http://www.biblioteca.cicimar.ipn.mx/oacis/

    Google Scholar 

  • De La Cruz-Agüero, J., Arellano-Martínez, M., Cota-Gómez, V.M., and De La Cruz-Agüero, G., Catálogo de los Peces Marinos de Baja California Sur, México, D.F.: CICI-MAR-IPN y CONABIO, 1997.

    Google Scholar 

  • De La Cruz-Agüero, J. and Galván, F., Morphological discrimination of Eucinostomus spp. from the Pacific coast of Mexico, Bull. Mar. Sci., 1993, vol. 52, pp. 819–824.

    Google Scholar 

  • De La Cruz-Agüero J., García-Rodríguez F.J., Cota-Gómez V.M., et al., Length-weight relations of selected species of the family Gerreidae (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) from the Mexican coast, Acta Ichthyol. Piscatoria, 2011, vol. 41, pp. 67–69.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Eschmeyer, W.N., Ferraris, C.J., Hoang, M.D., and Long, D.J., Species of fishes, in Catalogue of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Ed., Anaheim, CA: Calif. Acad. Sci., 1998, part 1, vol. 1, pp. 1–958.

    Google Scholar 

  • Eschmeyer, W.N., Herald, E.H., and Hammann, H., A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

    Google Scholar 

  • Escobar-Fernández, R. and Siri, M., Nombres Vernáculos y Científicos de los Peces del Pacífico Mexicano, Mexico, D.F.: UABC-Soc. Ictiol. Mexicana, 1997.

    Google Scholar 

  • FishBase, Froese, R. and Pauly, D., Eds., 2014. http://www.fishbase.org. Accessed June 6, 2014.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fitch, J.E. and Lavenberg, R.J., Tidepool and nearshore fishes of California, in California Natural History Guides 38, Berkeley, CA: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1975.

    Google Scholar 

  • Follett, W.I., The freshwater fishes: their origins and affinities. Symposium on biogeography of Baja California and adjacent seas, Syst. Zool., 1960, vol. 9, pp. 212–232.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gill, T.N., Catalogue of the fishes of Lower California, in the Smithsonian Institute, collected by Mr. John Xanthus, Part II, Proc. Acad. Natl. Sci. Phil., 1862, vol. 14, pp. 242–246.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gilmore, R.G. and Greenfield, D.W., Gerreidae, in The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic Bony Fishes, (Opistognathidae to Molidae), Carpenter, K.E., Ed., Rome, Italy: FAO-ASIH, 2002, vol. 3, part 2, pp. 1506–1521.

    Google Scholar 

  • González-Acosta, A.F., De La Cruz-Agüero, G., and De La Cruz-Agüero, J., Length-weight relationships of fish species caught in a mangrove swamp in the Gulf of California (Mexico), J. Appl. Ichthyol., 2004, vol. 20, pp. 154–155.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • ICZN, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, London: Int. Trust Zool. Nomenclature, 1999, 4th ed.

    Google Scholar 

  • ICZN, Amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication, ZooKeys, 2012, no. 219, pp. 1–10.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jimenez-Rosenberg, S.P.A., Gonzalez-Navarro, E.A., and Saldierna-Martínez, R.A., Larval, prejuvenile, and juvenile development of Eucinostomus currani, J. Fish Biol., 2006, vol., 69, pp. 28–37.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jordan, D.S., The fishes of Sinaloa, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 1895, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 377–514.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jordan, D.S. and Evermann, B.W., The fishes of North and Middle America, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1898, vol. 47, part 2, pp. 1241–2183.

    Google Scholar 

  • López-Peralta, R.H. and Arcila, C.A.T., Diet composition of fish species form the southern continental shelf of Colombia, Naga, 2002, vol. 25, pp. 23–29.

    Google Scholar 

  • Matheson, R.E., Taxonomic studies of the Eucinostomus argenteus complex (Pisces: Gerreidae), Ph.D. Dissertation, Galveston, USA: Grad. Coll. Tex., 1983.

    Google Scholar 

  • Matheson, R.E. and McEachran, J.D., Taxonomic studies of the Eucinostomus argenteus complex (Pisces: Gerreidae): preliminary studies of external morphology, Copeia, 1984, pp. 893–902.

    Google Scholar 

  • McEachran, J.D. and Fechhelm, J.D., Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Vol. 2: Scorpaeniformes to Tetraodontiformes, Austin, USA: Univ. of Texas Press, 2005.

    Google Scholar 

  • Quoy, J.R.C. and Gaimard, J.P., Description des poissons, in Voyage Autour du Monde, Entrepris par Ordre du Roiexécuté sur les Corvettes de L.M. L’Uranie et La Physicienne, Pendant les Années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. (L. de Freycinet,), Paris, 1824, ch. 9, pp. 192–401.

    Google Scholar 

  • Robins, C.R., Bailey, R.M., Bond, C.E., Brooker, J.R., et al., A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada, Am. Fish. Soc. (Spec. Publ.), 1980, vol. 12, pp. 1–174.

    Google Scholar 

  • Robins, C.R., Bailey, R.M., Bond, C.E., et al., A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada, Am. Fish. Soc. (Spec. Publ.), 1991, vol. 20, pp. 1–183.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ruiz-Ramirez, S., Lucano-Ramirez, G., and MariscalRomero, J., Length-weight relationships of soft-bottom demersal fishes form Jalisco and Colima states, Mexico, Naga, 1997, vol. 20, pp. 62–63.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sanchez-Velasco, L., Jimenez-Rosenberg, S.P.A., Shirasago, B., and Obeso-Nieblas, M., Distribution and abundance of fish larvae in Bahia de la Paz (Gulf of California) and their relation to hydrographic variability during summer (1997–1998), Deep Sea Res., Part II, 2004, vol. 51, pp. 723–737.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schmitter-Soto, J.J., Catálogo de los Peces Continentales de Quintana Roo, Chetumal, México: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, 1998.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tapia, M.G. and Ayala, P.G., Clave para la determinación de las especies de mojarras de México (Pisces: Gerreidae), Rev. Biol. Trop., 1996, vol. 44, pp. 519–526.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tapia-García, M., Suárez-Núñez, C., Cerdenares-Ladron de Guevara, G., et al., Composición y distribución de la ictiofauna en la Laguna del Mar Muerto, Pacífico Mexicano, Rev. Biol. Trop., 1998, vol., 46, pp. 277–284.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yáñez-Arancibia, A., Taxonomía, ecología y estructura de las comunidades de peces en lagunas costeras con bocas efímeras del Pacifico de México, An. Inst. Biol., Univ. Nac. Auton. Mex., Ser. Cienc. Mar Limnol., 1980, vol. 2, pp. 1–306.

    Google Scholar 

  • Zahuranec, B.V., The gerreid fishes of the genus Eucinostomus in the Eastern Pacific, MSc Thesis, La Jolla, CA: Univ. of California, 1967.

    Google Scholar 

  • ZooBank, Official registry of zoological nomenclature, according to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), 2014. http://zoobank.org/. Accessed June 6, 2014.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Colección Ictiológica, Avenida Instituto Politécnico Nacional s/n, Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita, La Paz, B.C.S., 23096, Mexico

    J. De La Cruz-Agüero

Authors
  1. J. De La Cruz-Agüero
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to J. De La Cruz-Agüero.

Additional information

The article is published in the original.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

De La Cruz-Agüero, J. Authorship, publication dates and prevailing usage of names for some species of the genus Eucinostomus Baird et Girard, 1855 (Perciformes: Gerreidae). J. Ichthyol. 55, 180–184 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945215020034

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945215020034

Keywords

Search

Navigation