Morwong (genus)

Morwong is a genus of fishes belonging to the family Latridae found in oceans off Australia and New Zealand. They were formerly included in the genus Cheilodactylus in family Cheilodactylidae, but based on genetic and morpological analyses they have been moved to genus Morwong in family Latridae.[1][2]

Morwong
Morwong fuscus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perciformes
Family:
Latridae
Genus:
Morwong

Whitley, 1957
Type species
Cheilodactylus fuscus
Castelnau, 1879

Systematics
Morwong fuscus resting on a sponge

There are two recognized species in this genus:[1][2]

Although the red morwong has usually been assigned to Cheilodactylus, DNA studies published in the early 2000s recover Cheilodactylus fuscus as closer to Nemadactylus than to the Cheilodactylus type species. In the meantime, John E. Randall has recommended using the generic name Morwong for C. fuscus. In this case, Cheilodactylus ephippum would also become a referred species of Morwong, as M. ephippum, because Burridge and White (2000) and Burridge and Smolenski (2004) recover it as sister to the red morwong.[3][4][5]

References
  1. Ludt, W.B., Burridge, C.P. & Chakrabarty, P. (2019). A taxonomic revision of Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters. Zootaxa 585(1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4585.1.7
  2. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Chirodactylus species". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  3. Burridge, C.P., and White, R.W.G. 2000. Molecular phylogeny of the antitropical subgenus Goniistius (Perciformes: Cheilodactylidae: Cheilodactylus ): evidence for multiple transequatorial divergences and non-monophyly. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70: 435–458.
  4. Burridge and Smolenski (2004). Molecular phylogeny of the Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Perciformes: Cirrhitoidea) with notes on taxonomy and biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 118–127.
  5. Randall, J. E. 2001. Family Cheilodactylidae. pp. 3329–3330. In: Carpenter & Niem 2001 (eds.) Species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the western central Pacific. Bony fishes part 3 (Menidae to Pomacentridae). FAO, Rome. v. 5: iii–iv; 2791–3379, I-XXVII.


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