Siganus

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Name (Hebrew)

דג: Siganus

Name (Latin)

Siganus

Name (Arabic)

سيجان

Other forms of name

Lo (Fishes)

Wikidata: Q10667467

Library of congress: sh 94007310

Sources of Information

Work cat.: Woodland, D.J. Revision of the fish family Siganidae with descriptions of two new species and comments on distribution and biology, 1990:Abstr. ("The family consists of a single genus, Siganus, and 2 subgenera, Siganus and Lo ...")
Syn. class. liv. org.:v. 2, p. 936 ("There are 2 genera (Lo and Siganus) with about 10 species in the family. Some authors consider Lo to be part of Siganus.")
Eschmeyer, W.N. Catalog of the genera of recent fishes, 1990:p. 379 (Siganus. Valid. Siganidae) p. 225 (Lo. Valid. Siganidae)
Phone call to C. Ferraris, CAS Ichthyology Dept., 20 Jan. 1994(Lo is now considered to be a synonym of Siganus. Eschmeyer's book had a cutoff date of 1989, so Woodland's revision didn't make it in)

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