Bodianus

Bodianus
Temporal range: 14–0 Ma


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 Bodianus perditio, 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: 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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. doi:10.3853/j.0812-7387.30.2006.1460.
  5. 1 2 Gomon, M.F. (2001). "Descriptions of two new species of Bodianus (Perciformes: Labridae) from Australasian waters". New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 407–416. doi:10.1080/03014223.2001.9518279.
  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. doi:10.1023/b:sypa.0000038442.25230.8b.
  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.
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