Liza (genus)
| Liza | |
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| Liza aurata off Corsica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Mugiliformes |
| Family: | Mugilidae |
| Genus: | Liza Jordan & Swain, 1884 |
| Type species | |
| Mugil capito (Georges Cuvier, 1829) | |
| Species | |
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Liza is a genus of mullets from the family Mugilidae. Recent work has suggested that the genus is paraphyletic and its species should be placed in the resurrected genus Planiliza while others should be classified in the traditional genera Mugil and Chelon. Liza is derived from the Spanish word for a grey mullet.[1]
Species
There are currently 20 species classified in the genus Liza:[2]
- Liza abu (Heckel, 1843)
- Liza affinis (Günther, 1861)
- Liza alata (Steindachner, 1892)
- Liza argentea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
- Liza aurata (Risso, 1810)
- Liza bandialensis Diouf, 1991
- Liza carinata (Valenciennes, 1836)
- Liza dumerili (Steindachner, 1870)
- Liza falcipinnis (Valenciennes, 1836)
- Liza grandisquamis (Valenciennes, 1836)
- Liza haematocheila (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)
- Liza klunzingeri (Day, 1888)
- Liza macrolepis (Smith, 1846)
- Liza mandapamensis Thomson, 1997
- Liza persicus (Senou, Randall & Okiyama, 1995)
- Liza ramada (Risso, 1827)
- Liza ramsayi (MacLeay, 1883)
- Liza richardsoni(Smith, 1846)
- Liza saliens (Risso, 1810)
- Liza tricuspidens (Smith, 1935)
Taxonomy
The grey mullets are all morphologically very similar, making identification and classification problematic. With the advent of molecular biology the relationships within the wider family Mugilidae have been clarified and Liza has been found to be paraphyletic which has led to a new proposals being suggested, with the genus Planiliza being resurrected to include the Indo-Pacific species of Liza and Chelon and Paramugil parmatus while Liza falcipinnis is moved to the new genus Neochelon and the genus Gracilimugil is ressurrected for Liza argentea.[3]
References
- ↑ R. Froese; D. Paly, eds. (2016). "Liza falcipinnis (Valenciennes, 1836)". Fishbase. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ↑ "Fish Identification: Find Species Class: Actinopterygii Order: Mugiliformes Family: Mugilidae Mullets Genus: Liza". Fishbase. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ↑ Jean-Dominique Durand; Wei-Jen Chen; Kang-Ning Shen; Cuizhang Fue; Philippe Borsaf (2012). "Genus-level taxonomic changes implied by the mitochondrial phylogeny of grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugilidae) (abstract)". Comptes Rendus Biologies. 335 (10&11): 687–697. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2012.09.005.