NRM 7
Labrus bimaculatus
Current taxonomic status
Current name Cichlasoma bimaculatum, family Cichlidae (Teleostei: Perciformes: Labroidei).
Specimen data
1 specimen, 90.4 mm SL (Kullander, 1983: 66).
Original description
Labrus bimaculatus Linnaeus, 1758: 285 (type locality: M. Mediterraneo)
Other references
Sciaena bimaculata Linnaeus, 1754: 66, pl. 31, fig. 6.
Description of "Sciaena bimaculata" in Linnaeus (1754)
Illustration of "Sciaena bimaculata" in Linnaeus (1754)
Type status
Recognized as type specimen of Labrus bimaculatus by Smitt (1892: 11), Fernholm & Wheeler (1983: 253) and Kullander (1983: 66). Holotype of Labrus bimaculatus.
Curatorial record
Current catalogue number assigned in 1996. Previous catalogue numbers include NRM LP7 (used by Fernholm & Wheeler, 1983) and NRM 42 (used by Kullander, 1983).
Labels available from Ulriksdal, Dalman and Bergström. Cataloged by Dalman (1828), but not by Quensel (1800) or Swartz (1808).
Original printed label from Museum Adolphi Friderici, Ulriksdal, 18th Century
Label written by J Dalman, around 1820
Remarks
In his description of Labrus bimaculatus, Linnaeus (1758) referred only to his own "Sciaena bimaculata" (Linnaeus, 1754). The specimen certainly did not come from the Mediterranean Sea, but represents a species recorded from freshwaters in the Guianas, South America. See Kullander (1983) for recent revision. Opinion 1954 recognises the specimen as the holotype of Labrus bimaculatus.
Literature cited
FERNHOLM, B. & A. WHEELER. 1983. Linnaean fish specimens in the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 78: 199-286.
[INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE]. 2000. Opinion 1954. Labrus Linnaeus, 1758, Cichlasoma Swainson, 1839 and Polycentrus Müller & Troschel, 1849 (Osteichthyes, Perciformes): conserved by the designation of Labrus mixtus Linnaeus, 1758 as the type species of Labrus and L. bimaculatus Linnaeus, 1758 as the type species of Cichlasoma; and Polycentrus schomburgkii Müller & Troschel, 1849: specific name given precedence over L. punctatus Linnaeus, 1758. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 57: 131-136.
KULLANDER, S.O. 1983. A revision of the South American cichlid genus Cichlasoma. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, 296 pp.
LINNAEUS, C. 1754. Hans Maj:ts Adolf Frideriks vår allernådigste konungs naturalie samling innehållande sällsynte och främmande djur, som bevaras på kongl. lust-slottet Ulriksdahl beskrefne och afritade samt på nådig befallning utgifne af Carl Linnaeus. Stockholm, I-XXX, 1-96 pp. + 7 pp.
LINNAEUS, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae, 823 pp.
SMITT, F.A. 1892. Skandinaviens fiskar målade af W. von Wright beskrifna av B. Fries, C.U. Ekström och C. Sundevall. Andra upplagan. Bearbetning och fortsättning. Text. Förra delen. P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm, pp. 1-566+I-VIII+2 pp.
Authors: Sven O Kullander (text, scanning), Anders Silfvergrip (photographs)
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