Anisotremus surinamensis (Bloch 1791)

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 : 58-59

Anisotremus surinamensis (Bloch 1791)

Extant specimens: MCUC ZOO.0000068 ( Fig. 44 ).

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

Common names on the specimen (Portuguese/Tupi): “Sargo”/ “Guaibiaia”.

Comments: This species was undescribed at the time Veloso prepared it. Perca sparoidea was not an available species name at the time of Veloso, and probably he intended to describe it. However, no description that fits this species could be found in the Ichthyologia Fluminensis manuscript. The Ajuda’s inventory ( Ferreira 1794) lists 79 herborized specimens of Perca , but no Perca sparoidea is listed in the transference to the University of Coimbra. Two specimens are mentioned in the transference to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, but no specimen was found. The common name “sargo-de-beiço” is used for this species in some parts of Brazil. Anisotremus surinamensis occurs in the Western Atlantic from Florida ( USA) to São Paulo ( Brazil) ( Menezes & Figueiredo 1980; Lindeman & Toxey 2002).

Figures

FIGURE 44. Anisotremus surinamensis (Bloch 1791), MCUC ZOO.0000068, 330 mmSL. Photo by Luis M. P. Ceríaco.