Aphareus

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Aphareus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, snappers belonging to the family Lutjanidae. They are native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the African coast to the Hawaiian Islands. The currently recognized species in this genus are: Aphareus is placed in the subfamily Etelinae. The genus was created by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier and he took the name Aphareus which he stated (in French) was from an “unintelligible and probably corrupt passage from Aristotle, where it seems to designate a fin specific to the female of the tuna”, the name is also similar to the name given to these fishes in the Arabic, farès, although this could be coincidental. In 1913 David Starr Jordan, John Otterbein Snyder and Shigeho Tanaka designated Aphareus caerulescens as the type species of the genus, this is a synonym of A. furca. Apahreus snappers are medium-sized Lutjanids which have elongated, fusiform but rather robus bodies. They have tiny teeth in their jaws with no canine-like teeth and they lack any vomerine teeth. They have gill openings which reach relatively far forward to the front of the eye. The area between the eyes is flat. The dorsal fin is continuous with no notch around te junction of the spiny and soft-rayed parts, it has 10 spines and 11 (infrequently 10) soft rays while the anal fin contains 3 spines and 8 soft rays.