Orthopristis

Orthopristis is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, grunts belonging to family Haemulidae. They are found in the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas.^[1]

Orthopristis Temporal range: Middle Eocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acanthuriformes
Family:	Haemulidae
Subfamily:	Haemulinae
Genus:	Orthopristis Girard, 1858
Type species
Orthopristis duplex Girard, 1858
Synonyms
Evapristis D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896 Lepidopristis Fowler, 1944 Lepthaemulon Fowler & B. A. Bean, 1923 Pristocantharus T. N. Gill, 1862 †Allomorone Frizzell and Dante, 1965

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:^[1]

• Orthopristis cantharinus (Jenyns, 1840) (sheephead grunt)
• Orthopristis chalceus (Günther, 1864) (brassy grunt)
• Orthopristis chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766) (pigfish)
• Orthopristis forbesi D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1897
• Orthopristis lethopristis D. S. Jordan & Fesler, 1889 (scalyfin grunt)
• Orthopristis reddingi D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1895 (bronze-striped grunt)
• Orthopristis ruber (G. Cuvier, 1830) (corocoro grunt)
• Orthopristis scapularis Fowler, 1915 (South American grunt)^[2][3]

The extinct species O. burlesonis (formerly Allomorone burlesonis Frizzell and Dante, 1965) is known from otoliths from the Middle Eocene of the southern United States.^[4][5]

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Orthopristis". FishBase. August 2013 version.
2. "CAS - Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes". researcharchive.calacademy.org. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
3. "Roncador-Sul-Americano (Orthopristis scapularis)". BioDiversity4All (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-06-27.
4. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
5. Lin, Chien-Hsiang; Nolf, Dirk (2022-04-20). "Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA". European Journal of Taxonomy. 814: 1–122. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.814.1745. ISSN 2118-9773.