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Etroplus

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Osteichthyes
Classis: Actinopterygii
Subclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Ordo: Perciformes
Subordo: Labroidei
Familia: Cichlidae
Subfamilia: Etroplinae
Genus: Etroplus
Species: E. canarensis - E. maculatus - E. suratensis

Name

Etroplus Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830: 486

Type species: Etroplus meleagris Cuvier, 1830 = Chaetodon suratensis Bloch, 1790 (Bloch's species suratensis needlessly renamed meleagris by Cuvier)
Type by subsequent designation of Desmarest, 1856: 223
Gender: masculine

Synonyms

Chaetolabrus Swainson, 1839
Pseudetroplus Bleeker, 1862

References

Cuvier in Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. 1830: Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome cinquième. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. Histoire naturelle des poissons, 5: i-xxviii + 1-499 + 4 pp., Pls. 100-140. [Cuvier authored volume. i-xx + 1-374 in Strasbourg edition.]

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