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Catalog of Fishes

Genera that contain: Platax [ 3 ] records

Platax Cuvier [G.] 1816:334 [Le Règne Animal; ref. 993] Masc. Chaetodon teira of Bloch & Schneider 1801 (= Chaetodon teira Forsskål 1775). Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Bleeker 1876:309 [ref. 448]. •Valid as Platax Cuvier 1816 -- (Johnson 1984:465 [ref. 9681], Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:181 [ref. 6441], Smith 1986:605 [ref. 5712], Kishimoto et al. 1988 [ref. 13446], Heemstra 2001:3612 [ref. 26298], Allen et al. 2006:1719 [ref. 29090], Kottelat 2013:437 [ref. 32989], Trnski 2015:1586 [ref. 34198], Motomura et al. 2017:201 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:346 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:107 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:296 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Platax Cuvier 1816. Ephippidae.

Pterophyllum Heckel [J. J.] 1840:334 [Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte v. 2; ref. 2064] Neut. Platax scalaris Cuvier 1831 (= Zeus scalaris Lichtenstein 1823). Type by monotypy. Not preoccupied (see Myers 1940:36 [ref. 3118]). Species scalaris as senior objective synonym from Myers [ref. 3118], not verified. •Valid as Pterophyllum Heckel 1840 -- (Kullander 1986:210 [ref. 12439], Kullander 1998:494 [ref. 23855], Farias et al. 1998:502 [ref. 23856], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:641 [ref. 27061], Schindler 2003:73 [ref. 27489]). Current status: Valid as Pterophyllum Heckel 1840. Cichlidae: Cichlinae.

Zabidius Whitley [G. P.] 1930:17 [Memoirs of the Queensland Museum v. 10 (pt 1); ref. 4671] Masc. Platax novemaculeatus McCulloch 1916. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Valid as Zabidius Whitley 1930 -- (Smith 1986:605 [ref. 5712], Heemstra 2001:3612 [ref. 26298], Allen et al. 2006:1720 [ref. 29090]). Current status: Valid as Zabidius Whitley 1930. Ephippidae.


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