Biology: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
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
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
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
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
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
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Sciaenidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Sciaenidae.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Species in the genus Nibea". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=species&genus=Nibea.
- ↑ Kunio Sasaki (1989). "Phylogeny of the family Sciaenidae, with notes on its Zoogeography (Teleostei, Peciformes)". Memoirs of the Faculty of Fishes Hokkaido University 36 (1-2): 1–137. https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/21886/1/36(1_2)_P1-137.pdf.
- ↑ 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. https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/.
- ↑ 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. https://etyfish.org/eupercaria/.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). Species of Nibea in FishBase. February 2023 version.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kunio Sasaki (2022). "Family Sciaenidae Croakers, Drums and Cobs". Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean Volume 3. South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. pp. 389-414. ISBN 978-1-990951-30-5. https://saiab.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1._wiof_volume_3_text.pdf.
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