''Mendosoma'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of marine

ray finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of skin ...

belonging to the

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Latridae Latridae commonly called trumpeters, is a family of marine ray-finned fish. They are found in temperate seas in the Southern Hemisphere. The classification of the species within the Latridae and the related Cheilodactylidae is unclear.They are ...

, the trumpeters.

Taxonomy

''Mendosoma'' was first formally described in 1848 by the French

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Alphonse Guichenot Antoine Alphonse Guichenot (31 July 1809 in Paris – 17 February 1876 in Cluny) was a French zoology, zoologist who taught, researched, and participated in specimen collecting trips on behalf of the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle'' (P ...

. Some authorities consider the genus ''Mendosoma'' to be

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, but others recognise three species within the genus: * '' Mendosoma caerulescens'' Guichenot, 1848 * '' Mendosoma fernandezianum'' Guichenot 1848 * '' Mendosoma lineatum'' Guichenot, 1848 Both ''M. caerulescens'' and ''M. fernandezianum'' have been considered ''

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'' in the past. The generic name, ''Mendosoma'', was created by combining the word ''méndola'', a

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name for the blotched picarel ('' Spicara maena''), and ''soma'' meaning "body", referring to the similarity in body shape between ''M. lineatum'' and ''S. maena''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q2788054 Latridae Ray-finned fish genera Fish described in 1848 Taxa named by Alphonse Guichenot