{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Haemulon chrysargyreum.JPG | image_caption = ''[[Haemulon chrysargyreum|Brachygenys chrysargyrea]]'' | taxon = Brachygenys | authority = [[Felipe Poey|Poey]], 1868 | type_species = ''[[Haemulon chrysargyreum|Haemulon taeniatum]]'' | type_species_authority = Poey, 1860<ref name = CofF>{{Cof family | family = Haemulidae | access-date = 28 March 2021}}</ref> | synonyms = *''Xenistius'' <small>[[David Starr Jordan|Jordan]] & [[Charles Henry Gilbert|Gilbert]], 1883</small> *''Xenocys'' <small>Jordan & [[Charles Harvey Bollman|Bollman]], 1890</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = CofF/> }} '''''Brachygenys''''' is a [[genus]] of marine [[ray-finned fish]], [[Haemulidae|grunts]] belonging to the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Haemulidae]]. The species within the genus are found in the eastern Pacific Ocean and western Atlantic Ocean.
==Species== The following species are classified within the genus ''Brachygenys'':<ref name = CofF2>{{Cof genus | genus = Brachygenys | access-date = 28 March 2021}}</ref>
* ''[[Brachygenys californiensis]]'' <small>([[Franz Steindachner|Steindachner]], 1875)</small> (California salema) * ''[[Brachygenys chrysargyrea]]'' <small>([[Albert Günther|Gũnther]], 1860)</small> (Smallmouth grunt) * ''[[Brachygenys jessiae]]'' <small>Jordan & Bollman, 1890</small> (Black-striped salema) * ''[[Brachygenys peruana]]'' <small>([[Samuel F. Hildebrand|Hildebrand]], 1856)</small>
==Systematics== [[File:Brachygenys californiensis.png|left|thumb|''[[Brachygenys californiensis]]'' (formerly in ''Xenistius'')]] The type species of ''Brachygenys'' is ''Haemulon chrysargyreum'' which as ''H. taeniatum'' was described by the [[Cuban people|Cuban]] [[zoologist]] Felipe Poey (1799-1891) but that taxon is a [[junior synonym]] of ''H. chrysargyreum''. [[Fishbase]] still places ''H. chrysargyreum'' in the genus ''Haemulon'',<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase genus | genus = Haemulon | access-date = 28 March 2021}}</ref> molecular studies now suggest that ''Haemulon'' ''[[sensu lato]]'' is paraphyletic because ''H. chrysargyreum'' clustered with ''[[Xenistius californiensis]]'', rendering ''Haemulon'' as [[paraphyletic]] if ''[[Xenistius]]'' was not included.<ref name = Tavera>{{cite journal | author1 = Tavera, J.J.P | author2 = A.A., Balart | author3 = E.F. | author4 = G. Bernardi | display-authors = 3 | title = Molecular phylogeny of grunts (Teleostei, Haemulidae), with an emphasis on the ecology, evolution, and speciation history of New World species | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 12 | issue = 57 | year =2012 | page = 57 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-12-57| pmid = 22537107 | pmc = 3472276 | doi-access = free }}</ref> The genus ''Brachygenys'' Poey, 1868 was revived to include the species listed above.<ref name = Parenti>{{cite journal | author = Paolo Parenti | year = 2019 | title = An annotated checklist of the fishes of the family Haemulidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332223321 | journal = Iranian Journal of Ichthyology | volume = 6 | issue = 3 | pages = 150–196}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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