Diagramma

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| image = Diagramma pictum JNC1245.JPG

| image_caption = Diagramma pictum

| taxon = Diagramma

| authority = Oken, 1817

| type_species = Anthias diagramma

| type_species_authority = Bloch, 1792{{Cof family | family = Haemulidae | access-date = 10 April 2021}}

|synonyms= Spilotichthys Fowler, 1904

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Diagramma is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Haemulidae, grunts native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:{{FishBase genus | genus = Diagramma| month = February | year = 2021}}

Diagramma centurio G. Cuvier, 1830 (sailfin rubberlip)
Diagramma labiosum W. J. Macleay, 1883
Diagramma melanacrum J. W. Johnson & J. E. Randall, 2001 (blackfin slatey)
Diagramma pictum (Thunberg, 1792) (painted sweetlips)
Diagramma punctatum G. Cuvier, 1830

Systematics

Diagramma was originally used as a tautological name for Anthias diagramma in 1792 by Marcus Elieser Bloch in error for Linnaeus’s Perca diagramma, Lorenz Oken used Bloch’s taxon as the type species of the new genus Diagramma in 1917. This is a synonym for Carl Peter Thunberg’s Perca picta of 1792. Linnaeus did not explain why he used diagramma but it may mean “marked with lines”.{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/acanthuriformes4/ | title = Order ACANTHURIFORMES (part 4): Families HAEMULIDAE and LUTJANIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | editor1 = Christopher Scharpf | editor2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 14 December 2024 | accessdate = 4 January 2025 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}} Some authorities treat Diagramma as a synonym of Plectorhinchus,{{cite journal | author1 = Jose Tavera| author2 = Arturo Acero P. | author3 = Peter C. Wainwright | year = 2018 | title = Multilocus phylogeny, divergence times, and a major role for the benthic-to- pelagic axis in the diversification of grunts (Haemulidae) | journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume = 121 | pages = 212–223 | doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.12.032| doi-access = free | pmid = 29307507 }} while others place D. centurio in Plectorhinchus although they maintain the other four Diagramma species in a separate genus.{{cite journal | author = Paolo Parenti | year = 2019 | title = An annotated checklist of the fishes of the family Haemulidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332223321 | journal = Iranian Journal of Ichthyology | volume = 6 | issue = 3 | pages = 150–196}}

References

Category:Ray-finned fish genera

Category:Taxa named by Lorenz Oken