Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest 1823)

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 : 73

Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest 1823)

Extant specimens: MCUC ZOO.0000011 ( Fig. 59 ).

Classification on the specimen: “P. T [sic] Labrus cromis ”.

Common names on the specimen (Portuguese/Tupi): “Corvina”/ “Guatucupa ”.

Comments: This species was undescribed at the time Veloso prepared it. Labrus cromis Linnaeus 1766 (= Pogonias cromis ) is a sciaenid occurring in northwestern Atlantic. Veloso describe this species in the Ichthyologia Fluminensis manuscript and listed the same common names as the ones on the herbarium sheet. There are 112 herborized specimens of Labrus in the Ajuda’s inventory, and one specimen of Labrus cromis is mentioned in the transference document to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and three in the transference to the University of Coimbra, one of which is extant. The Portuguese common name is still used nowadays. Micropogonias furnieri occurs in the Western Atlantic from Antilles and Costa Rica to Argentina ( Menezes & Figueiredo 1980) .

Figures

FIGURE 59. Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest 1823), MCUC ZOO.0000011, 330 mm SL. Photo by Luis M. P. Ceríaco.