Perciformes
Creators: name: Mucientes, Gonzalo
name: Arronte, Juan Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes

description: ORDER PERCIFORMES  Family Moronidae  
 * Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758) — European seabass   
Family Polyprionidae  
 Polyprion americanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) — Wreckfish Family Serranidae   
 * Anthias anthias (Linnaeus, 1758) — Swallowtail seaperch Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834) — Dusky grouper Serranus scriba (Linnaeus, 1758) — Painted comber   
 Reported by De Buen (1935b); there are no posterior records of this species. * Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758) — Comber   
Family Callanthiidae  
 * Callanthias ruber (Rafinesque, 1810) — Parrot seaperch   
Family Epigonidae  
 Epigonus telescopus (Risso, 1810) — Bulls-eye   
Family Pomatomidae  
 Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) — Bluefish   
 Not mentioned for Galician waters by Tortonese in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded by Lozano y Rey (1952), based on a picture of one specimen landed in the port of Vigo, erroneously identified by De Buen (1935b). There are reports of sporadic catches by game fishers from 1969 to approximately 1994. The last reported specimen of 76 cm TL was caught on 3 June 2007 in Portosin (Bañón et al., 2008b).   
Family Echeneidae  
 Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) — Spearfish remora   
 Not mentioned for Galician waters neither by Lachner in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al., (2003). Recorded from Galicia by Solórzano et al. (1988), as specimens attached to swordfish individuals caught by the longlinners. We consider this a doubtful record, probably out of the study area.   
 *Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common remora   
Two specimens of 10 and 11 cm TL caught during the survey “Demersales 00” at 267 m depth.  
Family Carangidae  
 * Trachurus trachurus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Atlantic horse mackerel   
 * Trachurus picturatus (Bowdich, 1825) — Blue jack mackerel   
 Trachurus mediterraneus (Steindachner, 1868) — Mediterranean horse mackerel   
 Pseudocaranx dentex (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) — White trevally Not mentioned for Galician waters by Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. (1986). Reported by Fernández and Bañon (1997).   
 Caranx crysos (Mitchill, 1815) — Blue runner   
 Not mentioned for Galician waters by Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded from Galicia by Bañón and Casas (1997). A new unreported specimen of 52 cm TL was caught on 30th November 2009 in the Ensenada de Corcubión, at 33 m depth (Figure 10).   
 * Naucrates ductor (Linnaeus, 1758) —Pilotfish   
 * Seriola rivoliana Valenciennes, 1833 —Almaco jack   
 * Seriola fasciata (Bloch, 1793) — Lesser amberjack   
 Not mentioned for Galician waters neither by Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al. (2003). Recorded from Galicia by Bañón and Mucientes (2009), one specimen of 32 cm TL caught on 19th September 2008 in the Ría de Arousa (South Galicia) at 12 m depth.   
 Campogramma glaycos (Lacepède, 1801) — Vadigo   
 Lichia amia (Linnaeus, 1758) — Leerfish   
 Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Derbio   
Family Coryphaenidae  
 Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758 — Common dolphinfish Coryphaena equiselis Linnaeus, 1758 — Pompano dolphinfish   
Family Bramidae  
 Pterycombus brama Fries, 1837 — Atlantic fanfish * Taractes asper Lowe, 1843 — Rough pomfret Taractichthys longipinnis (Lowe, 1843) — Bigscale pomfret * Brama brama (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Atlantic pomfret   
Family Sparidae  
 Dentex gibbosus (Rafinesque, 1810) — Pink dentex   
 Reported by López-Seoane (1866); there are no posterior records of this species. Dentex macrophthalmus (Bloch, 1791) — Large-eye dentex   
 Dentex dentex (Linnaeus, 1758) —Common dentex   
 Pagrus caeruleostictus (Valenciennes, 1830) — Bluespotted seabream Reported by Fernández et al. (1978) as Sparus caurelosticus.   
 * Pagrus pagrus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common seabream   
 Diplodus annularis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Annular seabream   
 * Diplodus cervinus (Lowe, 1838) — Zebra seabream   
 * Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) — White seabream   
 * Diplodus vulgaris (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) — Common two-banded seabream   
 Diplodus puntazzo (Cetti, 1777) — Sharpsnout seabream   
 * Pagellus acarne (Risso, 1827) — Axillary seabream   
 * Pagellus bogaraveo (Brünnich, 1768) — Blackspot seabream   
 * Pagellus erythrinus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common pandora   
 * Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758 — Gilthead seabream   
 * Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758) — Bogue   
 Oblada melanura (Linnaeus, 1758) — Saddled seabream   
 * Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) — Salema   
 * Spondyliosoma cantharus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Black seabream   
 * Lithognathus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Striped seabream   
Family Centracanthidae  
 Spicara maena (Linnaeus, 1758) — Blotched picarel Reported by López-Seoane (1866); there are no posterior records of this species.   
Family Sciaenidae  
 Umbrina cirrosa (Linnaeus, 1758) — Shi drum   
 Sciaena umbra Linnaeus, 1758 — Brown meagre   
 Umbrina canariensis Valenciennes, 1843 — Canary drum One specimen of 369 mm TL caught on 11 March 2009 in the Ría de Viveiro.   
 Argyrosomus regius (Asso, 1801) — Meagre   
Family Mullidae  
 * Mullus surmuletus Linnaeus, 1758 — Striped red mullet Mullus barbatus barbatus Linnaeus, 1758 — Red mullet   
Family Kyphosidae  
 Kyphosus sectator (Linnaeus, 1758) — Bermuda sea chub   
 Not mentioned for the Atlantic European waters neither by Tortonese in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al. (2003). Recorded from Galicia by Bañón (2004) (Figure 11) but previously observed by scuba divers, at least since 2001. Since 2005 the capture of three specimens has been recorded.   
Family Cepolidae  
 * Cepola macrophthalma (Linnaeus, 1758) — Red bandfish   
Family Mugilidae  
 * Chelon labrosus (Risso, 1827) — Thicklip grey mullet Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 — Flathead mullet * Liza aurata (Risso, 1810) — Golden grey mullet Liza ramada (Risso, 1810) — Thinlip mullet   
Family Labridae  
 * Coris julis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Mediterranean rainbow wrasse * Acantholabrus palloni (Risso, 1810) — Scale-rayed wrasse * Centrolabrus exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Rock cook   
 * Labrus bergylta Ascanius, 1767 — Ballan wrasse   
 * Labrus mixtus Linnaeus, 1758 — Cuckoo wrasse   
 Labrus merula Linnaeus, 1758 — Brown wrasse   
 Reported by López-Seoane (1866); there are no posterior records of this species. Labrus viridis Linnaeus, 1758 — Green wrasse   
 Reported by López-Seoane (1866); there are no posterior records of this species. * Ctenolabrus rupestris (Linnaeus, 1758) — Goldsinny   
 * Symphodus bailloni (Valenciennes, 1839) — Baillon’s wrasse * Symphodus cinereus (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Grey wrasse Symphodus tinca (Linnaeus, 1758) — East Atlantic peacock wrasse * Symphodus melops (Linnaeus, 1758) — Corkwing   
 Symphodus ocellatus (Forsskål, 1775) — No common name   
Family Chiasmodontidae  
 Chiasmodon niger Johnson, 1864 — Black swallower   
Family Ammodytidae  
 * Gymnammodytes semisquamatus (Jourdain, 1879) — Smooth sandeel   
 * Ammodytes tobianus Linnaeus, 1758 — Sandeel   
 * Hyperoplus lanceolatus (Le Sauvage, 1824) — Great sandeel   
 Hyperoplus immaculatus (Corbin, 1950) — Immaculate sandeel Not mentioned for Galician waters neither by Reay in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al. (2003). Recorded from Galicia by Franco and Sola (1985).   
Family Trachinidae  
 * Trachinus draco Linnaeus, 1758 — Greater weever fish * Echiichthys vipera (Cuvier, 1829) — Lesser weever fish Trachinus araneus Cuvier, 1829 — Spotted weever   
Identified by a photo of one specimen captured by gill-net in May 2008 in the Ría de Muros (Figure 12).  
Family Uranoscopidae  
 Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus, 1758 — Atlantic stargazer   
Family Tripterygiidae  
 * Tripterygion delaisi Cadenat & Blache, 1971 — Black-faced blenny   
Family Blenniidae  
 * Parablennius ruber (Valenciennes, 1836) — Portuguese blenny * Parablennius gattorugine (Brünnich, 1768) — Tompot blenny * Parablennius sanguinolentus (Pallas, 1811) — Rusty blenny * Parablennius pilicornis (Cuvier, 1829) — Ringneck blenny * Salaria pavo (Risso, 1810) — Peacock blenny   
 * Coryphoblennius galerita (Linnaeus, 1758) — Montagu's blenny * Blennius ocellaris Linnaeus, 1758 — Butterfly blenny * Lipophrys pholis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Shanny   
 *Paralipophrys trigloides (Valenciennes, 1836) — No common name   
Family Callionymidae  
 * Callionymus lyra Linnaeus, 1758 — Common dragonet * Callionymus maculatus Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1810 — Spotted dragonet * Callionymus reticulatus Valenciennes, 1837 — Reticulate dragonet   
Family Gobiidae  
 Crystallogobius linearis (Düben, 1845) — Crystal goby   
 * Gobius niger Linnaeus, 1758 — Black goby   
 * Gobius paganellus Linnaeus, 1758 — Rock Goby   
 * Gobius cobitis Pallas, 1814 — Giant goby   
 Gobius cruentatus Gmelin 1789 — Red-mouthed goby   
 * Gobius xanthocephalus Heymer and Zander, 1992 — No common name Recorded by De Buen (1918, 1935) and Iglesias (1981) as G. auratus. Recent studies have confirmed that these records are in fact G. xanthocephalus (Figure 13) (Villegas-Ríos and Bañon, in press).   
 Gobius gasteveni Miller, 1974 — Steven's goby   
 Not recorded from Galicia neither by Miller in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro (2003). However it is recorded from Galicia by Alberto et al. (1999). Although it is seldom caught by fishery gears, it is usually observed by scuba divers in the Rías Baixas of Galicia where it is a common species (Figure 14).   
 Gobiusculus flavenscens (Fabricius, 1779) — Two-spotted goby   
 * Aphia minuta (Risso, 1810) — Transparent goby   
 Lesueurigobius suerii (Risso, 1810) — Lesueur's goby   
 * Lesueurigobius friesii (Malm, 1874) — Fries's goby   
 * Deltentosteus quadrimaculatus (Valenciennes, 1837) — Four-spotted goby   
 * Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas, 1770) — Sand goby   
 * Pomatoschistus microps (Kroyer, 1838) — Common goby   
 Pomatoschistus norvegicus (Collett, 1902) — Norwegian goby   
 Not recorded from Galicia neither by Miller in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro (2003). Reported by De Buen (1935b) as P. f a g e i. A total of 11 specimens were captured again between 140–180 m depth in “Demersales 86” and “Demersales 01” surveys.   
 * Pomatoschistus pictus (Malm, 1865) — Painted goby   
 Pomatoschistus lozanoi (De Buen, 1923) — Lozano's goby   
 Zosterisessor ophiocephalus (Pallas, 1814) — Grass goby   
 Not recorded from Galicia neither by Miller in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro (2003). Reported by De Buen (1935b); we consider this as a doubtful record.   
 Thorogobius ephippiatus (Lowe, 1839) — Leopard-spotted goby   
Unrecorded from Galicia but many underwater images confirm their presence (Figure 15).  
Family Luvaridae  
 Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque, 1810 — Luvar   
Family Scombrolabracidae  
 Scombrolabrax heterolepis Roule, 1921 — Longfin escolar   
Family Sphyraenidae  
 Sphyraena sphyraena (Linnaeus, 1758) — European barracuda   
Family Gempylidae  
 Nesiarchus nasutus Johnson, 1862 — Black gemfish Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1833 — Oilfish   
Family Trichiuridae  
 Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758 — Largehead hairtail * Lepidopus caudatus (Euphrasen, 1788) — Scabbard fish Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839 — Black scabbardfish Benthodesmus simonyi (Steindachner, 1891) — Simony's frostfish   
Family Xiphiidae  
 Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 — Swordfish   
Family Istiophoridae  
 Tetrapturus albidus Poey, 1860 — Atlantic white marlin   
Family Scombridae  
 Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789 — Chub mackerel * Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758 — Atlantic mackerel Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Blue-fin tunny Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Albacore Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Skipjack tuna Auxis rochei (Risso, 1810) — Frigate mackerel Sarda sarda (Bloch, 1793) — Bonito   
Familly Centrolophidae  
 * Centrolophus niger (Gmelin, 1789) — Blackfish   
Family Nomeidae  
 Cubiceps gracilis (Lowe, 1843) — Driftfish   
Family Stromateidae  
 Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus, 1758 — Blue butterfish
description: Published as part of Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 2667 on pages 15-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276366