Nibea
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| Illustrated plate of Nibea soldado by George Henry Ford. | |
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| 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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]Nibea croakers are found in the Indo-Pacific region from Pakistan[7] east to New Guinea, south to Australia and north to Japan.[6]
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