''Crenidens'' is a small genus of three species of

seabream The Sparidae are a family of fish in the order Perciformes, commonly called sea breams and porgies. The sheepshead, scup, and red seabream are species in this family. Most sparids are deep-bodied compressed fish with a small mouth separated by ...

from the family

Sparidae The Sparidae are a family of fish in the order Perciformes, commonly called sea breams and porgies. The sheepshead, scup, and red seabream are species in this family. Most sparids are deep-bodied compressed fish with a small mouth separated by a ...

from the western Indian Ocean. It was previously regarded as

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, with the sole species being the Karenteen sea bream ''

Crenidens crenidens ''Crenidens crenidens'', the karanteen seabream or karanteen, is a species of ray-finned fish from the sea bream family Sparidae which was described by the Swedish zoologist Peter Forsskål in 1775. It is native to the western Indian Ocean but has ...

'' but two other species are now accepted as valid species, separate from the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...

, ''C. crenidens''.

Species

''Crenidens'' contains three recognised species. It was considered to be

but a second and third species are now regarded as valid. * ''

'' ( Forsskål, 1775) (Karanteen seabream) * '' Crenidens indicus''

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,1873 * '' Crenidens macracanthus'' Günther (1874 (Günther’s seabream)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2341414 Sparidae