WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Chorismopelor Chevey, 1927) Chevey, P. (1927). Sur un genre nouveau de Scorpenidae du Tonkin. <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 1).</em> v. 33 (no. 3): 222-224. [details]
taxonomy source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2024). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2024., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
basis of record
Eschmeyer, N.M., K.V. Rama-Rao & L.E. Hallacher (1979). Fishes of the Scorpionfish subfamily Choridactylinae from the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. Vol.XLI (21): 475-500. [details]
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
Remark Placed in family Scorpaenidae in Eschmeyer et al., 1979.
Type species Pelor japonicum Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1829, by original designation (Eschmeyer et al., 1979).
The generic name Pelor Cuvier is preoccupied by Pelor Dejean, 1828 [based on unpublished table of Bonelli], a genus of carabid beetles. Jordan and Starks (1904: 158) proposed the generic name Inimicus to accommodate forms like Pelor japonicum that do not possess filamentous upper pectoral rays. They wrongly assumed the type-species of Pelor was filamentosum, the only species then known to have the upper pectoral rays filamentous; they did not propose the name Inimicus as a replacement name for Pelor. The type-species of Pelor was established by Cuvier when he first proposed the name (1829) as Scorpaena didactyla (which Cuvier preferred to list under his own new name obscurum). Gill (1905) also wrongly assumed the type-species of Pelor, and hence his replacement generic name Simopias, was filamentosum and therefore confused his subgeneric designations. Inimicus, by reason of priority, takes precedence over Simopias Eschmeyer et al., 1979. [details]
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