TTO Changes

Notes to the Reader

Abbreviations

CASGEN - California Academy of Sciences, Catalog of Fishes (CoF), Genera Database

CASSPC - California Academy of Sciencies, Catalog of Fishes (CoF), Species Database

CoF - William Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes

TTO - Teleost Taxonomy Ontology

Possible actions for each change

Note: Obsoleting a term means it is no longer available for use and does not appear in the main hierarchy of the TTO. Phenoscape needs to retain the name and term id so that prior annotations to the term do not break.

• Family added A new TTO term is created, which should have a dbxref referring to the publication or some CoF derived identifier.
• Family obsoleted The TTO term and id are obsoleted. Genera are moved to a new family or a higher taxon.

• Genus added A new TTO term is created, which should have a dbxref referring to the publication or a (new) CASGEN identifier
• Genus obsoleted The TTO term and id are obsoleted. Any species under this genus are changed to the new genus.
• Genus moved The existing genus has its is_a relation changed to point to the new family or higher taxon.

• Species added A new TTO term is created, which should have a dbxref referring to the publication or a (new) CASSPC identifier.
• Species changed to/added as synonym of The TTO term and id are retained; the name is changed to the new name, the old name is added as a synonym. The is_a relation for the species is updated to the new genus. The synonym should have a dbxref refering to the publication. This is the default when the containing genus changes.
• Species obsoleted/added as synonym of The term is obsoleted, the old name is added as a synonym of the new name. The CASSPC or other dbxref of the old term should be added to the synonym. This is the default when species are merged.

Changes resulting from invited update (April 2008) of Mayden and Conway

Notes: This update contains many subfamily assignments. We don't currently include subfamilies in the TTO, but the update file will be retained in case this policy changes.

• Paracanthocobitis added as synonym to Acanthocobitis (Grant 2007)
• Botiidae added as family (Nalbant, T. T. 2002))
• Botia moved to family Botiidae
• Chromobotia moved to family Botiidae
• Leptobotia moved to family Botiidae
• Parabotia moved to family Botiidae
• Sinibotia moved to family Botiidae
• Syncrossus moved to family Botiidae
• Yasuhikotakia moved to family Botiidae
• Bibarba added as genus to family Cobitidae (Chen & Chen 2007)
• Bibarba bibarba added as species (Chen & Chen 2007)
• Erythroculter no change (unpublished suggestion to demote to synonym of Chandoichthys)
• Akrokolioplax no change (already in CoF CASGEN:10888)
• Henicorhynchus obsoleted/demoted to synonym of Bangana (Smith 1945)
• Henicorhynchus lobatus changed to/added as synonym of Bangana lobatus
• Henicorhynchus siamensis changed to/added as synonym of Bangana siamensis
• Henicorhynchus lineatus changed to/added as synonym of Bangana lineatus
• Henicorhynchus ornatipinnis changed to/added as synonym of Bangana ornatipinnis
• Acra changed so it is now a synonym of Bangana (was subgenus in CoF)
• Longiculter no change (uncertain subfamily change)
• Chalcalburnus obsoleted/demoted to synonym of Alburnus (as per online CoF) - member species pending TTO revision
• Psilorhynchoides obsoleted/demoted to synonym of Psilorhynchus (Conway & Kottelat 2007)
• Psilorhynchoides pseudecheneis changed to /demoted to synonym of Psilorhynchus pseudecheneis
• Psilorhynchoides arunachalensis changed to/demoted to synonym of Psilorhynchus arunachalensis
• Psilorhyncus robustus added as species (Conway & Kottelat 2007)
• Celesteichthys obsoleted/demoted to synonym of Danio (Roberts 2007)
• Celesteichthys margaritatus changed to/added as synonym of Danio margaritatus
• Bengala demoted to synonym of Megarasbora
• Bengala elanga changed to/demoted to synonym of Megarasbora elanga
• Cyprinopsis no change, problem appears in description date, not covered in TTO
• Mirolabeo no change, uncertain demotion to synonym of Bangana
• Vaillantellidae added as family (Slechtova et al. 2007)
• Vaillantella moved to family Vaillantellidae
• Caucus – appears as cypriniform in online CoF, but was not in CAS species table so never added to TTO; after consultation recommendation was to remove/not add; no change.
• Oreodaimon – appears as synonym to Pseudolabrus in online CoF, no change.
• Orthrias barbatulus zetensis no change (already demoted in CoF)
• Schistura cryptofasciata no change (already in CoF; CASSPC 68781)
• Notropis harperi changed to/demoted to synonym of Pteronotropis harperi
• Microrasbora micropthalma added as species (Jiang, Chen & Yang 2008)
• Araiocypris added as genus to Cyprinidae
• Araiocypris batodes added as species (Conway & Kottelat 2008)

Changes resulting from publication Conway (2005)

• Rasbora cf. bankanensis added as species

Changes resulting from publication de Pinna and Grande (2003)

• Osteoglossum sp. added as species
• Elops sp. added as species

Changes resulting from publication Conway et al. (2008)

• Oxygaster hypophthalmus added as synonym of Parachela hypophthalmus
• Rasboroides vaterifloris added as synonym of Rasbora vaterifloris
• Devario cf. aequipinnatus added as species

Changes resulting from publication Vari(1995)

Citation is: Vari RP. 1995. The Neotropical fish family Ctenoluciidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes): supra and intrafamilial phylogenetic relationships, with a revisionary study. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 564: 103.

• Agoniates sp. added as species
• Copella sp. added as species
• Distichodus sp. added as species
• Eugnathichthys sp. added as species
• Hemistichodus sp. added as species
• Hoplias cf. malabaricus added as species
• Hydrocynus sp. added as species
• Lebiasina sp. added as species
• Mesoborus sp. added as species
• Pyrrhulina sp. added as species
• Salminus sp. added as species
• Hydrolycus pectoralis added as synonym of Hydrolycus scomberoides

Changes resulting from publication Cavender and Coburn (1992)

Citation is: Cavender, Ted M., and Miles M. Coburn. 1992. Phylogenetic relationships of North American cyprinids. Pp. 293-327. In: Systematics, Historical Ecology, and North American Freshwater Fishes. R.L. Mayden (Ed.). Stanford University Press. Stanford, California. 969 p.

• Hybosis labrosa added as synonym for Cyprinella labrosa
• Hybosis monocha added as synonym for Erimonax monocha
• Hybosis zanema added as synonym for Cyprinella zanema
• Notropis ardens added as synonym for Lythrurus ardens
• Notropis caeruleus added as synonym for Cyprinella caerulea
• Notropis callistius added as synonym for Cyprinella callistia
• Notropis camurus added as synonym for Cyprinella camura
• Notropis cerasinus added as synonym for Luxilus cerasinus
• Notropis chloristius added as synonym for Cyprinella chloristia
• Notropis chrysocephalus added as synonym for Luxilus chrysocephalus
• Notropis coccogenis added as synonym for Luxilus coccogenis
• Notropis formosus added as synonym for Luxilus formosa
• Notropis galacturus added as synonym for Cyprinella galactura
• Notropis niveus added as synonym for Cyprinella nivea
• Notropis pyrrhomelas added as synonym for Cyprinella pyrrhomelas
• Notropis trichroistius added as synonym for Cyrinella trichroistia
• Notropis venustus added as synonym for Cyprinella venusta
• Notropis whipplei added as synonym for Cyprinella whipplei
• Notropis xaenurus added as synonym for Cyprinella xaenura
• Notropis zonatus added as synonym for Luxilus zonatus
• Notropis zonistius added as synonym for Luxilus zonistius
• Semotilus margarita added as synonym for Margariscus margarita
• Engraulicypris argenteus added as synonym for Rastrineobola argentea
• Moroco steindachneri added as synonym for Phoxinus steindachneri
• Osteocheilus hasseltii added as synonym for Osteochilus hasseltii
• Rhotee cotio added as synonym for Osteobrama cotio

Update from August 2008 Catalog of Fishes

TTO was updated from the Catalog of Fishes release of August 29, 2008 with the TTOupdate tool. In addition to CoF changes, the TTOupdate tool captures intermediate synonyms from the CoF status text for each species name.

Changes resulting from publication Roberts (1969)

Citation is: Roberts, T. R. 1969. Osteology and relationships of characoid fishes, particularly the genera Hepsetus, Salminus, Hoplias, Ctenolucius and Acestrorhynchus. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 36:391-500.

• Anostomus sp. (Roberts 1969) added as species
• Chilodus sp. (Roberts 1969) added as species
• Hoplias sp. (Roberts 1969) added as species
• Hydrocynus sp. (Roberts 1969) added as species
• Mylossoma sp. (Roberts 1969) added as species
• Serrasalmus sp. (Roberts 1969) added as species