Mendosoma Guinchenot

Ludt, William B., Burridge, Christopher P. & Chakrabarty, Prosanta, 2019, A taxonomic revision of Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters, Zootaxa 4585 (1), pp. 121-141 : 132-133

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.1.7

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Mendosoma Guinchenot
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Genus Mendosoma Guinchenot View in CoL View at ENA

Mendosoma Guinchenot, 1848: 212 View in CoL [Type-species: Mendosoma lineata Guinchenot, 1848 View in CoL by subsequent designation of Bleeker, 1876].

Etymology. Gender neuter. Derived from Venetian mendole (fish), and the Greek soma (body). Inclusive species. Mendosoma lineatum Guinchenot (type by monotypy) Diagnosis. Mendosoma is diagnosed from all other latrids by having a combination of the following

characters: dorsal-fin elements XXII–XXV, 23–27; anal-fin elements III, 17–21; pectoral-fin rays 16–19; vertebrae 42–46. Body elongate with a pointed snout and terminal mouth; mouth highly protrusible; eye moderate; no teeth on lower jaw; scales small and cycloid; supraneurals arranged 0/0/0/1+1/1+1/1 ( Fig. 2j View FIGURE 2 ).

Habitat and distribution. Found throughout the temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere from Tasmania, southern Australia, New Zealand and southern Chile. Commonly found in tide pools and in the water column near rocky reefs to 22m ( Roberts 2015).

Comments. Distinguished from all other latrids by the unique supraneural arrangement with a single dorsal-fin spine articulating with the first dorsal pterygiophore, the elongate, tubular body, and the pointed, highly protrusible mouth. Feeds on zooplankton in the water column. Five species of Mendosoma have been described in the literature, but here we take the conservative approach of only recognizing a single species based on the detailed results of Gon & Heemstra (1987).

Material examined. M. lineatum , CSIRO H 2377-01 View Materials [n=1, Australia: Tasmania] , CSIRO T 1119 View Materials [n=1, Australia: Tasmania: Maria Island ], NVM A19874 View Materials [n=1, Australia], NVM A11395 [n=1, Australia] .

CSIRO

Australian National Fish Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Latridae

Loc

Mendosoma Guinchenot

Ludt, William B., Burridge, Christopher P. & Chakrabarty, Prosanta 2019
2019
Loc

Mendosoma

Guinchenot 1848: 212
1848
Loc

Mendosoma lineata

Guinchenot 1848
1848
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