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Nibea is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. The species in this genus are found in the Indo-West Pacific region.

Species

ニベ属

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderPerciformes
  5. FamilySciaenidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded1,653

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
37
Family
Sciaenidae
Collections
CAS, USNM, MAGNT, NCSM, WAM
Recorded in
China, Pakistan, Australia, Thailand

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Sciaenidae
Image
Sciaena miles Ford 43.jpg
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Commons category
Nibea
taxon name
Nibea
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Nibea
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Taxonomy
  • Etymology
  • Species
  • Characteristics
  • Distribution
  • References

Nibea is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. The species in this genus are found in the Indo-West Pacific region.

==Taxonomy== Nibea was first proposed as a genus in 1911 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan & William Francis Thompson with Pseudotolithus mitsukurii designated as its type species. P. mitsukurii had originally been described in 1900 by Jordan and John Otterbein Snyder with its type locality given as Tokyo Bay, Japan. This taxon has been placed in the subfamily Otolithinae by some workers, but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes.

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