Selene (fish)

Genus of ray-finned fishes

Selene

Lookdown (S. vomer)
Hairfin lookdown (S. brevoorti), frontal view
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Carangiformes
Suborder:  | Carangoidei
Family:  | Carangidae
Subfamily:  | Caranginae
Genus:  | Selene
Lacépède, 1802
Type species
Selene argentea

Lacepède, 1802[1]

Synonyms[2]

* Argyreiosus Lacepède, 1802
* Platysomus Swainson, 1839
* Vomer Cuvier, 1816

Selene is a genus of carangids, commonly known as lookdowns and moonfishes, native to the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean.

## Species

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There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[3]

Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution

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| Selene brevoortii (T. N. Gill, 1863) | Hairfin lookdown | East Pacific where it is found from southernmost California, United States to northern Peru (occasionally south as far as Chile).
| Selene brownii (G. Cuvier, 1816) | Caribbean moonfish | Western Atlantic: continental shelf from Mexico to Colombia and Brazil, and from Cuba to Guadeloupe.
| Selene dorsalis (T. N. Gill, 1863) | African moonfish | Eastern Atlantic: Portugal to South Africa, including Madeira and Cape Verde
| Selene orstedii Lütken, 1880 | Mexican moonfish | Baja California, Mexico to Colombia.
| Selene peruviana (Guichenot, 1866) | Peruvian moonfish | southern California in the United States to central South America.
| Selene setapinnis (Mitchill, 1815) | Atlantic moonfish | Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada, along coasts of Gulf of Mexico and South America, Argentina.
| Selene spixii (Castelnau, 1855) |  | Mexico to Espirito Santo, Brazil.
| Selene vomer (Linnaeus, 1758) | Lookdown | Canada and Maine south to Uruguay, including Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico.

## References

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1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Selene". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Carangidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Selene". FishBase. October 2015 version.

Taxon identifiers

Selene|

* Wikidata: Q671979
* Wikispecies: Selene
* ADW: Selene
* BOLD: 3543
* CoL: 7F7Q
* GBIF: 2390697
* iNaturalist: 49599
* IRMNG: 1241373
* ITIS: 168679
* NCBI: 179363
* Open Tree of Life: 637336
* WoRMS: 125943

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