Pseudocaranx Bleeker, 1863

Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2006, Australian trevallies of the genus Pseudocaranx (Teleostei: Carangidae), with description of a new species from Western Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63 (1), pp. 97-106 : 98

Pseudocaranx Bleeker

Pseudocaranx Bleeker, 1863: 82 .

Type species. Scomber dentex Bloch and Schneider, 1801 , by subsequent designation of Fowler, 1936: 692.

Remarks. These fishes are presumed to comprise a monophyletic group, but the most appropriate generic classification for them is uncertain pending a well collaborated phylogeny of carangines. Citula Cuvier, 1816 (type species Citula banksii Risso, 1820 [= P. dentex ] by subsequent monotypy) is an available senior synonym of Pseudocaranx (type species Scomber dentex ) but this generic name has not been used for a nominal species of the group since Rissoʼs description. In the interest of nomenclatural stability, the junior name should continue to be used pending a petition to the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature to conserve the more familiar generic name. Other more recent synonyms of Pseudocaranx are Longirostrum Wakiya, 1924 , Usa (as a subgenus of Caranx ) Whitley, 1927, and Usacaranx Whitley, 1931 . Within the Caranginae, Pseudocaranx and Caranx equula Temminck and Schlegel, 1844 , which Kijima et al., 1986 and Gushiken, 1988 assign to the monotypic genus Kaiwarinus Suzuki, 1962 , are exceptional in having very poorly developed inferior vertebral foramina, and may be a sister taxa.