Acanthopagrus Peters, 1855

Siddiqui, Pirzada Jamal, Amir, Shabir Ali & Masroor, Rafaqat, 2014, The sparid fishes of Pakistan, with new distribution records, Zootaxa 3857 (1), pp. 71-100 : 73

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3857.1.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6139389
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scientific name	Acanthopagrus Peters, 1855
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Genus Acanthopagrus Peters, 1855 View in CoL View at ENA

Peters, 1855: 428–466.

Diagnosis. Body deep and compressed, head large. Mouth slightly oblique. Dorsal fin spines strong, normally graduate, not filamentous. Front of both jaws with 4–6 conical teeth, followed by 3–5 rows of rounded molariform teeth; no single enlarged molar posteriorly. Preopercular flange and interorbital naked. Less than 5 scale rows between 5th dorsal-fin spine base to lateral line. Anal-fin spine strong, 2nd spine usually longer than 3rd spine. Twenty valid species, 4 in Pakistani waters.