Family LATRIDAE

Common name: Morwongs, Trumpeters

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Summary:
Temperate fishes found on near-shore rocky reefs to depths of about 300 m. The group includes a number of commercially important fishes. Many latrid species were previously included in the family Cheilodactylidae, which is restricted to the SW Indian Ocean (Ludt et al. 2019).

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Bray, D.J. 2020, Morwongs, Trumpeters, LATRIDAE in Fishes of Australia, accessed 09 Oct 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/family/306

References

Allen, G.R. & Heemstra, P.C. 1976. Cheilodactylus rubrolabiatus, a new species of morwong (Pisces: Cheilodactylidae) from Western Australia, with a key to cheilodactylid fishes of Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 4(4): 311-325. (as Cheilodactylus gibbosus) PDF Open access

Burridge, C.P. & Smolenski, A.J. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of the Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Perciformes: Cirrhitoidea) with notes on taxonomy and biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 118-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00157-X

Burridge, C.P. & White, R.W.G. 2000. Molecular phylogeny of the antitropical subgenus Goniistius (Perciformes: Cheilodactylidae: Cheilodactylus): evidence for multiple transequatoral divergences and non-monophyly. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70(3): 435-458. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01233.x

Gon, O. & Heemstra, P. 1987. Mendosoma lineatum Guichenot 1848, first record in the Atlantic Ocean, with a re-evaluation of the taxonomic status of other species of the genus Mendosoma (Pisces, Latridae). Cybium 11(2): 183-193

Kimura, K., Imamura, H. & Kawai, T. 2018. Comparative morphology and phylogenetic systematics of the families Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Perciformes: Cirrhitoidea), and proposal of a new classification. Zootaxa 4536(1): 1-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4536.1.1

Ludt, W.B., Burridge, C.P. & Chakrabarty, P. 2019. A taxonomic revision of Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters. Zootaxa 4585 (1): 121–141 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4585.1.7

Roberts, C.D. & Gomon, M.F. 2008. Families Cheilodactylidae and Latridae. pp. 624-632 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp.