Scaevius
Sign in to saveScaevius is a monotypic genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Nemipteridae, the threadfin breams. The only species in the genus is Scaevius milii, the green-striped coral bream, the coral monocle bream or jurgen, is found in Australia.
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It sits within the topics IUCN Red List least concern species, Marine fish of Western Australia and Monotypic Actinopterygii genera.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
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- monotypic taxon
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- Nemipteridae
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- Scaevius
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Scaevius is a monotypic genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Nemipteridae, the threadfin breams. The only species in the genus is Scaevius milii, the green-striped coral bream, the coral monocle bream or jurgen, is found in Australia.
==Taxonomy== Scaevius was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1947 by the British-born Australian ichthyologist Gilbert Percy Whitley when he described the new species Scaevius nicanor, giving its type locality as Cape Peron in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Whitley's S. nicanor is nor regarded as a junior synonym of Cantharus millii, described by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent from Shark Bay in 1823. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the genus Scaevius within the family Nemipteridae which it places in the order Spariformes.
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