Umbrina coroides Cuvier 1830

Ceríaco, Luis M. P., Santos, Bruna S., Semedo, Thiago B. F., Garcia, Lucas Canes & Moreira, Cristiano Rangel, 2023, The fish collection of José Mariano da Conceição Veloso (1742 - 1811) and the beginning of ichthyological research in Brazil, with a taxonomic description of the extant specimens, Zootaxa 5391 (1), pp. 1-85 : 74

Umbrina coroides Cuvier 1830

Extant specimens: MCUC ZOO.0000033 ( Fig. 60 ).

Classification on the specimen: “P. Th. Labrus ”.

Common names on the specimen (Portuguese/Tupi): None.

Comments: This species was undescribed at the time Veloso prepared it. While there are 112 herborized specimens of Labrus in the Ajuda’s inventory, no name that would fit this species could be found in the transference documents to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences or the University of Coimbra.Also, no description fitting this species is found in the Ichthyologia Fluminensis manuscript. Umbrina coroides occurs in the Western Atlantic from Florida ( USA) to Santa Catarina ( Brazil) ( Menezes & Figueiredo 1980).

Order Spariformes

Figures

FIGURE 60. Umbrina coroides Cuvier 1830, MCUC ZOO.0000033, 330 mm SL. Photo by Luis M. P. Ceríaco.