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SINGLE PAPER

Volume 25, Issue 2 – 15 April 2019


Paolo Parenti: Annotated checklist of fishes of the family Polyprionidae, pp. 49-52

Abstract
An annotated checklist of the wreckfishes and jewfishes of the world is presented. The list includes 21 nominal species and five nominal genera. Two genera each with two species are recognized as valid. Notognidion Rafinesque is here regarded as a new synonym of Polyprion Oken and Notognidion scirenga Rafinesque as a new synonym of Polyprion americanus (Bloch & Schneider). A list of unavailable names is also included.