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Catalog of Fishes
 W.N. Eschmeyer
California Academy of Sciences
Revised version of June 2007 		California Academy of Sciences Logo
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) FishBase
Order: Perciformes
Family: Chaetodontidae
Genus:
Chelmon       Gender: masculine CAS GEN No: 937
Author: Cloquet , 1817 p.: 369? CAS REF No: 852
Type: Chaetodon rostratus       Linnaeus , 1758
  Type by subsequent designation.
Comments: Based on "Chelmons" Cuvier 1816:334 [ref. 993]. Type designated by Bleeker 1876:303 [ref. 448]. Spelled *Chelmo* by Oken 1817:1182 [ref. 3303]; see Gill 1903:966 [ref. 5768], also *Chelmo* Schinz 1822 and *Chelmonus* Jarocki 1822 (not investigated). Valid as *Chelmon* Cloquet 1817 -- (Burgess 1978:114 [ref. 700], Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:182 [ref. 6441], Maugé & Bauchot 1984:460 [ref. 6614], Nalbant 1986:170 [ref. 6135], Pyle 2001:3226 [ref. 26117], Smith et al. 2003:302 [ref. 27125], Allen et al. 2006:1296 [ref. 29090]).
Etymology: Greek, cheilon, -onos = a grey mullet (Ref. 45335).
Current Genus: Chelmon Cloquet 1817       Show current species
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