Acanthistius

Acanthistius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Serranidae
Subfamily:	Anthiinae
Genus:	Acanthistius; Bloch, 1793
Type species
	Plectropoma serratum; Cuvier, 1828
Species
	See text.

Acanthistius is a genus of fish. Some authors place the genus in the family Serranidae, while some consider it to be incertae sedis, where it is not clear which family it belongs to.^[2]

Species[]

There are 11 species in the genus:^[3]

Acanthistius brasilianus (Cuvier, 1828) – Argentine sea bass
Acanthistius cinctus (Günther, 1859) – yellowbanded perch
Regan, 1913 – Rapanui seabass
, 2010 – scalyjaw koester
(Günther, 1859) – eastern wirrah
, 1981 – leopard wirrah
(, 1840)
Hutchins & Kuiter, 1982 – orangelined wirra
(Tschudi, 1846) – brick seabass
(Castelnau, 1861) – koester
(Cuvier, 1828) – western wirrah

References[]

^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Acanthistius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^ Mansur, L. E. (2011). First record of partial albinism in the temperate rocky reefs fish Acanthistius patachonicus (Insertae sedis) off southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences 6(2), 185-87.
^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Acanthistius in FishBase. December 2019 version.

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[CofFG-1] Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Acanthistius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 May 2020.

[2] Mansur, L. E. (2011). First record of partial albinism in the temperate rocky reefs fish Acanthistius patachonicus (Insertae sedis) off southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences 6(2), 185-87.

[Fishbase-3] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Acanthistius in FishBase. December 2019 version.

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