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Pristipomoides
Sign in to savePristipomoides is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lutjanidae, the snappers. They are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyLutjanidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 173
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Collections
- YPM, USNM, SIO, NMV, ICML-UNAM, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, Curacao, Seychelles, Australia, Mexico, Philippines, Jamaica, Spain
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Pristipomoides is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lutjanidae, the snappers. They are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans.
==Taxonomy== Pristipomoides was created by the Dutch ichthyologist, herpetologist and physician Pieter Bleeker in 1852 as a monotypic genus with Pristipomoides typus as its only species, this species therefore being the type species of the genus. The generic name is a compound of Pristipoma with the suffix oides which means "like". At the time Bleeker coined the name he though P. typus was more closely related to and in the same family as the genus Pristipoma, this taxon is now regarded as a synonym of the grunt genus Pomadasys in the family Haemulidae.
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