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Eucinostomus Baird and Girard in Baird, 1855
Taxonomic Serial No.: 169014

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Ulaema Jordan and Evermann in Jordan, 1895
	Common Name(s):	mojarras [English]
		mojarritas [English]
		mojarras [Spanish]
		mojarritas [Spanish]
		shortspine mojarras [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2007

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Actinopterygii – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées
	Class	Teleostei
	Superorder	Acanthopterygii
	Order	Perciformes – perch-like fishes
	Suborder	Percoidei
	Family	Gerreidae – mojarras, blanches, mojarras
	Genus	Eucinostomus Baird and Girard in Baird, 1855 – mojarras, mojarritas, mojarras, mojarritas, shortspine mojarras
		Direct Children:
	Species	Eucinostomus argenteus Baird and Girard in Baird, 1855 – spotfin mojarra, mojarra plateada
	Species	Eucinostomus currani Zahuranec in Yáñez-Arancibia, 1980 – mojarra tricolor, Pacific flagfin mojarra
	Species	Eucinostomus dowii (Gill, 1863) – mojarra manchita, Pacific spotfin mojarra
	Species	Eucinostomus entomelas Zahuranec in Yáñez-Arancibia, 1980 – darkspot mojarra, mojarra mancha negra
	Species	Eucinostomus gracilis (Gill, 1862) – graceful mojarra, mojarra charrita
	Species	Eucinostomus gula (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) – silver jenny, mojarra de ley, mojarra española
	Species	Eucinostomus harengulus Goode and Bean, 1879 – tidewater mojarra, mojarra costera
	Species	Eucinostomus havana (Nichols, 1912) – bigeye mojarra, mojarrita manchada, mojarra cubana
	Species	Eucinostomus jonesii (Günther, 1879) – slender mojarra, mojarrita esbelta, mojarra flaca
	Species	Eucinostomus lefroyi (Goode, 1874) – mottled mojarra, mojarrita, mojarra pinta
	Species	Eucinostomus melanopterus (Bleeker, 1863) – flagfin mojarra, mojarra bandera, mojarra de ley

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Wayne C. Starnes
	Notes:	Research Curator of Fishes, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Laboratory, 4301 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC, 27607, USA
	Reference for:	Eucinostomus

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Catalog of Fishes, 05-Dec-2007, website (version 09-Oct-07)
	Acquired:	2007
	Notes:	http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/
	Reference for:	Eucinostomus

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Eucinostomus

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes
	Publication Date:	2003
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Page(s):
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:	As-yet (2003) unpublished manuscript from 1998
	Reference for:	Eucinostomus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N.
	Publication Date:	1990
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Genera of Recent Fishes
	Page(s):	iii + 697
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, CA, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-23-8
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Eucinostomus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N., ed.
	Publication Date:	1998
	Article/Chapter Title:	Catalog of Fishes
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3
	Page(s):	2905
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, California, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-47-5
	Notes:	Available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25622932
	Reference for:	Eucinostomus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Nelson, Joseph S.
	Publication Date:	1994
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Fishes of the World, Third Edition
	Page(s):	xvii + 600
	Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons
	Publication Place:	New York, New York, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-471-54713-1
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Eucinostomus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Shiino, Sueo M.
	Publication Date:	1976
	Article/Chapter Title:	List of Common Names of Fishes of the World, Those Prevailing among English-speaking Nations
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Science Report of Shima Marineland, no. 4
	Page(s):	262
	Publisher:	Shima Marineland
	Publication Place:	Kashikojima, Shima, Mie, Japan
	ISBN/ISSN:	0385-1109
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Eucinostomus

Geographic Information


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Comments


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