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| Species: | U. mentalis
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| Ulua mentalis (Cuvier, 1833)
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Caranx mentalis Cuvier, 1833 | |
Taxonomy and naming
The longrakered trevally is one of two species in the genus Ulua, one of around thirty genera in the jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae. The Carangidae are perciform fishes in the suborder Percoidei.[1]
The longrakered trevally was first scientifically described by the famed French naturalist Georges Cuvier in his 1833 volume Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Cuvier based his description off the designated holotype specimen collected from the Red Sea near the port city of Massawa in Eritrea. Cuvier named the species Caranx mentalis, with the specific epithet derived from the Latin word for "chin".[2] In 1908 the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and John Snyder described Ulua richardsoni and in the process erected a new genus for the species.[3] Subsequent review has shown the designation of a new genus to be correct, however U. richardoni was found to be synonymous with C. mentalis. ICZN rules state that the first description takes priority, thus the combination of Ulua mentalis is currently accepted.[4] Between 1833 and 1908, three other redescriptions were published, with William Macleay's Caranx mandibularis entering common usage before priority was established.[5]
The species is commonly referred to as the 'longrakered trevally' or 'heavyjawed kingfish' in reference to the protruding lower jaw, with the name Cale-cale trevally also used, predominantly in Australia.[6]
References
- ^ "Ulua mentalis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ Cuvier, G. (1833). Histoire naturelle des poissons Vol. 9. Strasbourg: Pitois-Levrault. p. 512.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Jordan, D.S. (1908). "Descriptions of three new species of carangoid fishes from Formosa". Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. 4 (2): 37–40.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ California Academy of Sciences: Ichthyology (September 2009). "Catalog of Fishes". CAS. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ Nichols, J.T. (1920). "On the genus Citula". Copeia. 79: 11–14.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ulua mentalis". FishBase. October 2012 version.
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