Holocentrus adscensionis (Osbeck 1765)

Ceríaco, Luis M. P., Santos, Bruna S., Semedo, Thiago B. F., Garcia, Lucas Canes & Moreira, Cristiano Rangel, 2023, The fish collection of José Mariano da Conceição Veloso (1742 - 1811) and the beginning of ichthyological research in Brazil, with a taxonomic description of the extant specimens, Zootaxa 5391 (1), pp. 1-85 : 32-33

Holocentrus adscensionis (Osbeck 1765)

Extant specimens: MCUC ZOO.0000026 ( Fig. 19 ).

Classification on the specimen: “P. Th. Perca fimbriata ”.

Common names on the specimen (Portuguese/Tupi): “Jagurisa”/ “Jaguaraca” (see comments).

Comments: The original classification on the herbarium sheet, Perca fimbriata , is not available and could indicate that Veloso intended to name this species. However, in the Ichthyologia Fluminensis manuscript, this species has the name of Perca rubra . This name could refer to Sciaena rubra Forsskål 1775 (= Sargocentron rubrum ), a holocentrid species that occurs in the Pacific and invaded the Mediterranean and is superficially similar to Holocentrus adscensionis . If that is the case, there are two possibilities for the name discrepancy: Veloso recognized that the species was already named, after preparing the herborized sheet; or he recognized it after writing the manuscript it as new and put the proposed name on the herbarium sheet. The solution to this problem depends on the precise dates of when the herbarium sheets and the manuscript were prepared, which we don’t know. There are 79 specimens of herborized Perca mentioned in the Ajuda’s inventory ( Ferreira 1794), but no name that could be attributed to this species is found on the transference list to the University of Coimbra. One specimen of P. fimbriata is mentioned in the transference to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, but this specimen is lost. The common names presented on the herbarium sheet are derived from the ancient Tupi name “îagûarasá” ( Navarro 2013). This species is still known as jaguriçá or jaguareçá in Brazil. This species is distributed in the Western Atlantic from Virginia ( USA) to São Paulo ( Brazil), and in the Eastern Atlantic from Gaboon to Angola, including Canary Islands, St. Helena and Ascension Islands.

Order Mugiliformes

Figures

FIGURE 19. Holocentrus adscensionis (Osbeck 1765), MCUC ZOO.0000026, 246 mm SL. Photo by Luis M. P. Ceríaco.