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: Perciformes
Subordo: Percoidei
Superfamilia: Percoidea
Familia: Sciaenidae
Genus: Nibea
Species: N. acuta – N. albiflora – N. chui – N. coibor – N. leptolepis – N. maculata – N. microgenys – N. mitsukurii – N. semifasciata – N. soldado – N. squamosa
Name
Nibea Jordan and Thompson, 1911
References
Nibea – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Nibea species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Vernacular names
Nibea soldado
Nibea is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. The species in this genus are found in the Indo-West Pacific region.
Taxonomy
Nibea was first proposed as a genus in 1911 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan & William Francis Thompson with Pseudotolithus mitsukurii designated as its type species.[1] P. mitsukurii had originally been described in 1900 by Jordan and John Otterbein Snyder with its type locality given as Tokyo Bay, Japan.[2] This taxon has been placed in the subfamily Otolithinae by some workers,[3] but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes.[4]
Etymology
Nibea is derived from a Japanese word referring to large Sciaenids and for the isinglass, manufactured from their swim bladders, used in binding bamboo rods together.[5]
Species
Nibea contains ten accepted species:[6]
Nibea albiflora (Richardson, 1846) (Yellow drum)
Nibea chui Trewavas, 1971 (Chu's croaker)
Nibea coibor (Hamilton, 1822)
Nibea leptolepis (Ogilby, 1918) (Smallscale croaker)
Nibea maculata (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Blotched croaker)
Nibea microgenys Sasaki, 1992 (Small-jaw croaker)
Nibea mitsukurii (Jordan & Snyder, 1900) (Honnibe croaker)
Nibea semifasciata Chu, Lo & Wu, 1963 (Sharpnose croaker)
Nibea soldado (Lacépède, 1802) (Soldier croaker)
Nibea squamosa Sasaki, 1992 (Scale croaker)
Characteristics
Nibea croakers have the first pair of pores on the chin set closely together, immediately to the rear of the symphysis of the lower jaw, and connected by a crescent-shaped groove. The teeth in the lower jaw are not uniform in size. The swim bladder has a shape like a carrot and has branched appendages along the whole of both its sides and the most forward of these goes through the transverse septum.[7] The type species is the largest member of the genus, with a maximum published standard length of 75 cm (30 in) while the smallscale croaker (N. leptolepis) with a maximum published standard length of 22 cm (8.7 in) is the smallest member.[6]
Distribution
Nibea croakers are found in the Indo-Pacific region from Pakistan[7] east to New Guinea, south to Australia and north to Japan.[6]
References
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Sciaenidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Nibea". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
Kunio Sasaki (1989). "Phylogeny of the family Sciaenidae, with notes on its Zoogeography (Teleostei, Peciformes)" (PDF). Memoirs of the Faculty of Fishes Hokkaido University. 36 (1–2): 1–137.
J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 497–502. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (9 March 2023). "Series Eupercaria (Incertae sedis): Families Callanthidae, Centrogenyidae, Dinopercidae, Emmelichthyidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Parascorpididae, Sciaenidae and Sillagidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). Species of Nibea in FishBase. February 2023 version.
Kunio Sasaki (2022). "Family Sciaenidae Croakers, Drums and Cobs". In Phillip C Heemstra; Elaine Heemstra; David A Ebert; Wouter Holleman; John E Randall (eds.). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean Volume 3 (PDF). South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. pp. 389–414. ISBN 978-1-990951-30-5.
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