Acantholabrus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Osteichthyes
Classis: Actinopterygii
Subclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Ordo: Perciformes
Subordo: Labroidei
Familia: Labridae
Genus: Acantholabrus
Species: A. palloni

Name

Acantholabrus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1839:242

Type species: Lutjanus exoletus (not of Linnaeus) Risso, 1810 (= Lutjanus palloni Risso, 1810). Type by subsequent designation. Type apparently designated by Bonaparte, 1841.

References

* Cuvier, G. & A. Valenciennes 1839: Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome treizième. Livre seizième. Des Labroïdes. Historie 13: i-xix + 1-505 + 1 p., Pls. 369-388.
* Parenti, P. & J.E. Randall 2000: An annotated checklist of the species of the Labroid fish families Labridae and Scaridae. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, 68: 1-97.

Vernacular names
English: Scale-rayed Wrasse