Diagramma

Life-forms

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: Lutjaniformes

Familia: Haemulidae
Genus: Diagramma
Species: D. labiosum – D. melanacrum – D. pictum – D. punctatum
Name

Diagramma Oken, 1817
References

Diagramma – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Diagramma species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

Diagramma is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Haemulidae, grunts native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.[2] The currently recognized species in this genus are:[2]

Diagramma centurio G. Cuvier, 1830 (sailfin rubberlip)
Diagramma labiosum W. J. Macleay, 1883
Diagramma melanacrum J. W. Johnson & J. E. Randall, 2001 (blackfin slatey)
Diagramma pictum (Thunberg, 1792) (painted sweetlips)
Diagramma punctatum G. Cuvier, 1830

Systematics

Diagramma was originally used as a tautological name for Anthias diagramma in 1792 by Marcus Elieser Bloch in error for Linnaeus’s Perca diagramma, Lorenz Oken used Bloch’s taxon as the type species of the new genus Diagramma in 1917. This is a synonym for Carl Peter Thunberg’s Perca picta of 1792. Linnaeus did not explain why he used diagramma but it may mean “marked with lines”.[3] Some authorities treat Diagramma as a synonym of Plectorhinchus,[4] while others place D. centurio in Plectorhinchus although they maintain the other four Diagramma species in a separate genus.[5]
References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Haemulidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2021). Species of Diagramma in FishBase. February 2021 version.
Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (5 January 2021). "Order LUTJANIFORMES: Families HAEMULIDAE and LUTJANIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
Jose Tavera; Arturo Acero P.; Peter C. Wainwright (2018). "Multilocus phylogeny, divergence times, and a major role for the benthic-to- pelagic axis in the diversification of grunts (Haemulidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 121: 212–223. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.12.032.
Paolo Parenti (2019). "An annotated checklist of the fishes of the family Haemulidae (Teleostei: Perciformes)" (PDF). Iranian Journal of Ichthyology. 6 (3): 150–196.