Diplodus Rafinesque, 1810

Siddiqui, Pirzada Jamal, Amir, Shabir Ali & Masroor, Rafaqat, 2014, The sparid fishes of Pakistan, with new distribution records, Zootaxa 3857 (1), pp. 71-100 : 83

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3857.1.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6139411
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scientific name	Diplodus Rafinesque, 1810
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Genus Diplodus Rafinesque, 1810 View in CoL View at ENA

Diplodus Rafinesque, 1810: 26 View in CoL , 54.

Diagnosis. Body oval, deep and compressed, head moderate. Mouth small and slightly oblique and somewhat protectile. Dorsal fin spines strong, normally graduate, not filamentous. In front of both jaws more than 6 enlarged incisiform teeth, followed by 1–3 rows of small molars. Preopercle flange and interorbital naked. More than 5 scale rows between 5th dorsal fin spine base to lateral line. Sixteen valid species, two in Pakistani waters.