Dules

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Dules auriga | parent_authority = Cuvier, 1829 | authority = Cuvier, 1829 | image = Histoire naturelle des poissons (Pl. 51) (7949939686).jpg | image_caption = }}

'''''Dules''''' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes in the family Serranidae. It is a monotypic genus containing a single species '''''Dules auriga''''', which is found in the south western Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina.<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase|Dules|auriga|month=December|year=2019}}</ref> It is a hermaphrodite which is found in deeper offshore waters and is frequently taken as a bycatch by deep water fisheries.<ref name = Rovani>{{cite journal | author1 = A.T. Rovani | author2 = L.G. Cardoso | year = 2017 | title = Life history and initial assessment of fishing impacts on the by-catch species Dules auriga (Teleostei: Serranidae) in southern Brazil | doi = 10.1111/jfb.13390 | journal = Journal of Fish Biology | volume = 91 | issue = 3 | pages = 896–911| pmid = 28770585 | bibcode = 2017JFBio..91..896R }}</ref>

The fossil species "''Dules''" ''temnopterus'' <small>Agassiz, 1836</small> from the Early Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy, was formerly placed in this genus. However, more recent analyses indicate that it does not belong to ''Dules'' and cannot be confidently placed in the Serranidae, and is thus now considered an indeterminate percomorph in its own genus, †''Jimtylerius''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bannikov |first1=Alexandre F. |last2=Carnevale |first2=Giorgio |date=2005 |title=The Eocene "Dules" temnopterus Agassiz, 1836 from Monte Bolca, and the problem of classifying fossil percoid fishes |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266087474 |journal=Palaeontographia Italica |issue=91 |pages=69–84}}</ref>

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Category:Serraninae Category:Fish described in 1829 Category:Taxa named by Georges Cuvier Category:Perciformes genera