# Dules

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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
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| taxon = Dules auriga
| parent_authority = [Cuvier](/source/Georges_Cuvier), 1829
| authority = Cuvier, 1829
| image = Histoire naturelle des poissons (Pl. 51) (7949939686).jpg
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'''''Dules''''' is a genus of marine [ray-finned fish](/source/ray-finned_fish)es in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Serranidae](/source/Serranidae). It is a [monotypic](/source/monotypy) 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](/source/Louis_Agassiz), 1836</small> from the [Early Eocene](/source/Ypresian) of [Monte Bolca](/source/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](/source/Serranidae), and is thus now considered an indeterminate [percomorph](/source/Percomorpha) in its own genus, †''[Jimtylerius](/source/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

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