Author: (Bowdich, 1825)

Parapristipoma humile (Bowdich, 1825)

Diagnosis: head 3.2-3.4 in standard length. Eye large 3.4-3.7 in head. Mouth large, oblique, chin prominent; snout short with a prominent swelling on tip, equal to or less than eye diameter. Gillrakers 20-22 on lower arm. Dorsal fin continuous, with 13 spines and 15 soft rays; anal fin with 3 spines and 7 rays. Scales fairly small, 55-58 pores in lateral line. Colour: uniform brown above, silvery below. Size: to 36 cm SL.

Habitat: coastal waters in depths up to 100 m on sand, muddy sand or rocky bottoms. Food: bottom invertebrates. Reproduction: no data.

Distribution: Atlantic coast from the Canaries to Gibraltar; doubtful in Mediterranean. Elsewhere, along West Africa southward to Angola.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Perciformes
Suborder Percoidei
Family Haemulidae
Genus Parapristipoma
Species Parapristipoma humile

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Parapristipoma humile (Bowdich, 1825)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Parapristipoma humile (Bowdich, 1825)

Synonyms:

Pristipoma humilis S. Bowdich, 1825, Excurs. Mad.: 236, fig. 40 (St. Jago, Bona Vista, Cape Verde Islands).
Pristipoma viridense Cuvier, 1830, in Cuv. Val., Hist. nat. Poiss., 5: 287 (San Iago, Cape Verde Islands). Type: MNHN no. A 7818.
Pristipoma viridense: Valenciennes, 1843, 2 (2): 26 (Canaries) Günther, 1859,1: 302 (Madeira, St. Vincent; Cape Verde; north west coast of Africa) Steindachner, 1865, 51(1): 400 (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) Rochebrune, 1883: 49 (St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands) Vinciguerra, 1892, 34: 305 (Canaries) Jordan & Fesler, 1893: 503 (part.) (north west coast of Africa; south coast of Spain and the neighbouring islands).
Diagramma citrinellum Günther, 1864, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (3)14: 374 (Cape Verde Islands). Type: BMNH no. 1864.6.6.27.
Genyatremus latifrons Troschel, 1866, Arch. Naturg., 65: 202 (Cape Verde Islands).
Genyatremus angustifrons Troschel, 1866, Arch. Naturg., 65: 203 (ibidem).
Diagramma aeneum Peters, 1869, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin: 454 ('Prinzensinsel, Westkuste Afrikas').
Diagramma viridense: Capello, 1871: 196 ('S. Jago, Ilhas do Cabo Verde').
Genyatremus angustifrons: Osorio, 1911: 62 ('Ilhas do Cabo Verde').
Diagramma (Diagrammella) macrops Pellegrin, 1912d, C.R. Acad. Sc., 155: 1115 (Mossamedes, Angola). Syntypes: MNHN no. 12-283 & 12-284.
Diagramma (Diagrammella) macrops: Pellegrin, 1912c, 37: 292, 295; 1914, 6 (4): 48, pl. II (fig. 3).
Diagramella macrops: Fowler, 1920: 210 (Porto Grande, Cape Verde I.).
Diagramma aeneum: Monod, 1927: 694.
Parapristipoma latifrons: Fowler, 1936, 2: 808 (Western Africa, Cape Verde to Angola).
Parapristipoma humile: F. de Buen, 1936: 113 (part.) (coasts of Spain, Atlantic and Mediterranean) Fowler, 1936, 2: 809 (part.).
Parapristipoma macrops: Poll, 1954, 4 (3A): 209, fig. 62 da Franca & Picciochi, 1958: 177, fig. 5.


Common names:

burro boca de oro [Es]
burro [Es]
grondeur bouche d'or [Fr]
guinean grunt [En]

Bowdich, S. 1825. Zoological and botanical descriptions. Appendice, pp. 233-238. In: T. E. Bowdich, 1825, Excursions in Madeira ....

Buen, F. de 1936a. Fauna ictiologica. Catalogo de los peces ibericos: de la planicie continental, aguas dulces, pelagicos y de los abismos proximos. Tertia parte. Notas Resúm. Inst. esp. Oceanogr., ser. II, (94): pp. 151-173.

Capello, F. de Brito 1871. Primeira lista dos peixes da Ilha da Madeira, Açores, e das possessões portuguezas d'Africa que existem no Museu de Lisboa. Journ. Sci. rnath. phys. nat., Lisboa: 194-202.

Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. 1828-1849. Histoire naturelle des Poissons, Paris-Strasbourg, 22 vol., 11030 pp., 621 pl. (numb. 1-650).1,1828: xvi+573 pp., pl. I-VIII [author: Cuvier]; 2, 1828: xxi+490 pp., pl. 9-40 [Cuv.: pp. 1-238, pp. 249-262, pp. 387-490; Val.: pp. 238-249, pp. 262-386]; 3 April 1829: xxiii+500 pp., pl. 41-71 [Cuvier]; 4, 1829: xxvi+518 pp., pl. 72-99 [Cuvier]; 5, 1830: xxviii+499 pp., pl. 100-140 [Cuvier]; 6, 1830: xxiv+pp.559 pp., pl. 141-169 [Val.: pp. 1-425, 493-559; Cuv.: 426-491]; 7, 1831: xxix + 531 pp., pl. 170-208 [Cuv.: 1-440; Val.: pp. 441-531]; 8, 1832: xix+509 pp., pl. 209-245 [Cuv.: pp. 1-470; Val.: pp. 471-509]; 9, 1833: xxix+512 pp., pl. 246-279 [Cuv.: pp. 1-198, pp. 330-359, pp. 372-427; Val.: pp. 199-329, pp. 359-371, pp. 429-512]; 10, 1835: xxiv+482 pp., pl. 280-306 [Val.]; 11, 1836: xx+506 pp., pl. 307-343 [Val.]; 12, 1837: xxix+507 pp., pl. 344-368 [Val.]; 13, 1839: xix+505 pp., pl. 369-388 [Val.]; 14, 1840: xxii+464 pp., pl. 389-420 [Val.]; 15, 1840: xxi + 540 pp., pl. 421-455 [Val.]; 16, 1842: xx+472 pp., pl. 456-487 [Val.]; 17, 1844: xxiii+497 pp., pl. 487-519 [Val.]; 18, 1846: xix+505 pp., pl. 520-553 [Val.]; 19, 1847: xix+544 pp., pl. 554-590 [Val.]; 20, 1847: xviii+472 pp., pl. 591-606 [Val.]; 21, 1848: xiv+536 pp., pl. 607-633 [Val.]; 22, 1849: xx+532 pp., pl. 634-650 [Val.].

Fowler, H. W. 1920. The Fishes of the United States 'Eclipse' Expedition to West Africa. Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 1919 [1920], 56: pp. 195-292, 13 fig.

Fowler, H. W. 1936. The Marine Fishes of West Africa, based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-1915. Bull. am. Mus. nat. Hist., 70 (1), Jan. 21, 1936: pp. vii+1-606, fig. 1-275; (2), Nov. 18, 1936: pp. 607-1493, fig. 276-567.

Franca, P. da; Picciochi, P. 1958. Contribução para o conhecimento dos Pomadasyidae de Angola. Trabalhos da missao de Biologia maritima, no. 23. Mems. Jta Invest. Ultramar, 4 : pp. 145-195.

Günther, A. 1859. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. 1. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. London, pp. xxxi+524.

Günther, A. 1864b. Descriptions of three new species of fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (3)14: pp. 374-376.

Jordan, D. S.; Fesler, B. 1893. A review of the Sparoid Fishes of America and Europe. Rep. U.S. Commnr Fish. for 1889-1891, 17: pp. 421-544, 55 pl.

Monod, Th. 1927. Contribution à la faune du Cameroun. Pisces I: pp. 643-742, 35 fig. Faune des Colonies françaises, 1.

Osório, B. 1911b. Peixes colhidos nas vishinhancas do Archipelago de Cabo Verde. Mems Mus. Bocage, 3: 51-77, 2 pl.

Pellegrin, J. 1912c. Poissons des côtes de l'Angola. Mission de M. Gruvel. Bull. Soc. zool. Fr., 37: pp. 290-296.

Pellegrin, J. 1912d. Sur la faune ichthyologique des cotes de l'Angola. C.r. hebd. Seanc. Acad. Sci., Paris, 155: pp. 1114-1116.

Peters, W. C. H. 1869. Über eine neue Nagergattung, Chiropodomys penicillatus, so wie uber einige neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien und Fische. Mber. dt. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1868 [1869]: 449-460, 2 pl.

Poll, M. 1954. Poissons. IV. Téléostéens Acanthoptérygiens. Rés. Sci. Expéd. océanogr. belg. Eaux côt. afr. Atlant. Sud (1948-1949), 4 (3A): pp. 1-390, 107 fig., 9 pl.

Rochebrune, A. T. de. 1882. Faune de la Sénégambie. Act. Soc. linn. Bordeaux, (4) 6 [36] (lere liv.): 23-190, col. pl. I-VI. (Also separate, Paris-Bordeaux, 1883: 166 pp., 6 pl.)

Steindachner, F. 1865b. Vorlaufiger Bericht über die an der Ostküste Tenerife's bei Santa Cruz gesammelten Fische. Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 51(1): 398-404.

Troschel, F. H. 1866. Ein Beitrag zur Ichthyologischen Fauna der Inseln des Grünen Vorgebirges. Arch. Naturgesch., XXXII. Jahrg., 1[65]: 190-239, pl. V.

Valenciennes, A. 1837-1844. Ichthyologie des îles Canaries, ou histoire naturelle des poissons rapportés par MM. Webb et Berthelot. In: P. B. Webb et S. Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries. Paris, 2 (2): 1-109, 26pl. [Plates: 1837: pl.1, 3-4, 8, 11-12; 1838: pl. 7, 10, 13, 14, 17; 1839: pl. 5, 9, 15-16, 18; 1840: pl. 2; 1841: pl. 6- 1842: pl. 19; 1843: pl. 20-23; 1844: pl. 24-26. Text: 1842 : 1-8; 1843: 9-96; 1844: 97-109].

Vinciguerra, D. 1893. Catalogo dei pesci delle Isole Canarie. Atti. Soc. ital. Sci. nat., 1892 [1893], 34: 293-334.

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