Bodianus or the hogfishes is a genus of fish in the family Labridae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. These species have many parasites.[4]

Bodianus
Temporal range: 14–0 Ma
Middle Miocene to present[1]
Bodianus loxozonus
Bodianus perditio
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Bodianus
Bloch, 1790
Type species
Bodianus bodianus
Bloch, 1790[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Chaeropsodes Gilchrist & Thompson, 1909
  • Cheiliopsis Steindachner 1863
  • Cossyphus Valenciennes, 1839
  • Diastodon Bowdich, 1825
  • Euhypsocara Gill, 1863
  • Gymnopropoma Gill, 1863
  • Harpe Lacepède, 1802
  • Lepidaplois Gill, 1862
  • Paralepidaplois Gomon, 2006
  • Peneverreo Gomon, 2006
  • PriobodianusGomon, 2006
  • Pseudolepidaplois Bauchot & Blanc, 1961
  • Ronchifex Gistel, 1848
  • Trochocopus Günther, 1862
  • Verreo Jordan & Snyder, 1902
  • Verriculus Jordan & Evermann, 1903

Species edit

There are currently 45 recognized species in this genus:

References edit

  1. ^ Sepkoski, J.J.Jr (2002): A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera. Archived February 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Bulletins of American Paleontology, 363: 1-560.
  2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Bodianus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  3. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Labridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  4. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Bodianus in FishBase. June 2016 version.
  5. ^ Randall, J.E. & Victor, B.C. (2013): Bodianus atrolumbus (Valenciennes 1839), a valid species of labrid fish from the southwest Indian Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 13: 44–61.
  6. ^ Gomon, M.F. & Walsh, F. (2016): A new pygmy hogfish (Labridae: Bodianus) of the subgenus Trochocopus from the tropical southern Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 23: 12-20.