Bodianus

Bodianus
Temporal range: 14–0Ma


Middle Miocene to present[1]

Bodianus loxozonus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Bodianus
Bloch, 1790
Type species
Bodianus bodianus
Bloch, 1790

Bodianus is a genus of wrasses found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.[2]

Species

The 44 currently recognized species in this genus are:

Parasites

Huffmanela ossicola [6] is a nematode parasite found in the bones of the Bodianus perditio, the Bodianus loxozonus and Bodianus busellatus in the waters of New Caledonia.
Haliotrema banana [7] is a monogenean parasite found on the gills of the golden-spot hogfish.
Intusatrium robustum [8] is a lepocreadiid digenean found in the intestine of its type-host, the golden-spot hogfish and the blackfin hogfish.

Synonyms

These genus names have all been relegated to junior synonyms of Bodianus:

References

  1. Sepkoski, J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology, 364: p.560.
  2. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). Species of Bodianus in FishBase. November 2014 version.
  3. Randall, J.E & Victor, B.C. (2013). "Bodianus atrolumbus (Valenciennes 1839), a valid species of labrid fish from the southwest Indian Ocean" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 13: 44–61.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Gomon, M.F. (2006). "A revision of the labrid fish genus Bodianus with descriptions of eight new species". Records of the Australian Museum, Supplements, 30: 1–133.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gomon, M.F. (2001). "Descriptions of two new species of Bodianus (Perciformes: Labridae) from Australasian waters". New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 28: 407–416.
  6. Justine, J.L. (2004). "Three new species of Huffmanela Moravec, 1987 (Nematoda: Trichosomoididae) from the gills of marine fish off New Caledonia.". Systematic Parasitology, 59 (1): 29–37.
  7. Lim, L.H.S. & Justine, J.L. (2007): Haliotrema banana sp. n. (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) from Bodianus perditio (Perciformes: Labridae) off New Caledonia. Folia Parasitologica, 54: 203-207.
  8. Bray, R.A. & Justine, J.L. (2006): Hypocreadium toombo n. sp. (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) in the yellow-spotted triggerfish Pseudobalistes fuscus (Perciformes: Balistidae) and additional lepocreadiids parasitizing fishes from the waters off New Caledonia. Zootaxa, 1326: 37-44.