Serranus

Serranus
Temporal range: Early Oligocene–present
Serranus baldwini
Serranus cabrilla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Perciformes
Family: Serranidae
Genus: Serranus
G. Cuvier, 1816
Type species
Perca cabrilla
Synonyms

Serranus is a genus of fish in the family Serranidae. It is one of five genera known commonly as the "Atlantic dwarf sea basses". These fish are hermaphrodites, each individual possessing functional male and female reproductive tissues. When a pair spawns, one fish acts as a male and the other acts as a female.

Species

There are currently 34 recognized species in this genus:

The following fossil species are known:

In the past, various fossil fish from the Late Paleocene onwards have been classified within Serranus, making it a wastebasket taxon. However, such a classification is now known to be inaccurate, and likely a consequence of Serranus sharing a generalized morphology shared by various unrelated percomorphs. Some species formerly classified in the genus from the Eocene have been reclassified into new genera or synonymous with other non-serranid species.

References

  1. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Serraninae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Serranus". FishBase. August 2022 version.
  3. 1 2 Carvalho Filho, A.; Ferreira, C.E.L. (2013). "A new species of dwarf sea bass, genus Serranus (Serranidae: Actinopterygii), from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean". Neotropical Ichthyology. 11 (4): 809–814. doi:10.1590/s1679-62252013000400008.
  4. ↑ García-Díaz, M.; González, J.A.; Lorente, M.J.; Tuset, V.M. (2006). "Spawning season, maturity sizes, and fecundity in blacktail comber (Serranus atricauda) (Serranidae) from the eastern-central Atlantic" (PDF). Fishery Bulletin. 104 (2): 159–166.
  5. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Serranus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  6. ↑ Wirtz, P.; Iwamoto, T. (2016). "A New Species of Serranus from São Tomé and Príncipe, Eastern Atlantic (Pisces, Teleostei, Serranidae)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 63 (6): 191–200.
  7. ↑ Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
  8. ↑ Schwarzhans, Werner; Carnevale, Giorgio; Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Japundžić, Sanja; Bradić, Katarina (2017). "Otoliths in situ from Sarmatian (Middle Miocene) fishes of the Paratethys. Part I: Atherina suchovi Switchenska, 1973". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 136 (1): 7–17. Bibcode:2017SwJP..136....7S. doi:10.1007/s13358-015-0111-0. hdl:2318/1632311. ISSN 1664-2376.
  9. 1 2 Neriman, Rückert-Ülkümen (1994). "Erstnachweis der Teleostei-Genera Lucioperca, Serranus und Lates in sarmatischen Ablagerungen von Thrakien, Türkei". Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Histor. Geologie (in German). 34. Archived from the original on 2024-09-15.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. 1 2 S.v, Popov; M.a, Akhmetiev; E.m, Bugrova; A.v, Lopatin; O.v, Amitrov; A.s, Andreyeva-Grigorovich; N.i, Zaporozhets; V.v, Zherikhin; V.a, Krasheninnikov; I.a, Nikolaeva; E.k, Sytchevskaya; I.g, Shcherba (2002). "BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE NORTHERN PERI-TETHYS FROM THE LATE EOCENE TO THE EARLY MIOCENE: PART 2. EARLY OLIGOCENE". Paleontological Journal. 36. ISSN 0031-0301.
  11. ↑ Sepkoski, J.J.Jr (2002). "A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560.
  12. ↑ Bannikov, A. F. (2000). "New Data on Late Paleocene Marine Percoids (Perciformes) of Turkmenistan". Journal of Ichthyology. 40 (8): 564–570.
  13. ↑ Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Carnevale, Giorgio (2005). "The Eocene "Dules" temnopterus Agassiz, 1836 from Monte Bolca, and the problem of classifying fossil percoid fishes". Palaeontographia Italica. 91 (91): 69–84.
  14. ↑ Bannikov, Alexandre F. (2006). "Fishes from the Eocene of Bolca, northern Italy, previously classified in the Sparidae, Serranidae and Haemulidae (Perciformes)". Geodiversitas. 28 (2): 249–275.
  15. ↑ Schwarzhans, Werner; Beckett, Hermione T.; Schein, Jason D.; Friedman, Matt (2018). "Computed tomography scanning as a tool for linking the skeletal and otolith-based fossil records of teleost fishes". Palaeontology. 61 (4): 511–541. Bibcode:2018Palgy..61..511S. doi:10.1111/pala.12349. hdl:2027.42/144669. ISSN 1475-4983.