Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Labriformes
Familia: Labridae
Genus: Decodon
Species: D. grandisquamis – D. melasma – D. pacificus – D. puellaris
Name
Decodon Günther, 1861:384
Type species: Cossyphus puellaris Poey, 1860. Type by monotypy.
References
Günther, A. 1861: A preliminary synopsis of the labroid genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 3) 8(47): 382–389.
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: Wrasses
Decodon is a genus of wrasses found in the western Atlantic Ocean, the western Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.[1]
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
Decodon grandisquamis (J. L. B. Smith, 1968) (largescale wrasse)
Decodon melasma M. F. Gomon, 1974 (blackspot wrasse)
Decodon pacificus (Kamohara, 1952) (ten-tooth wrasse)
Decodon puellaris (Poey, 1860) (red hogfish)
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Decodon". FishBase. August 2013 version.
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