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Calamus Swainson, 1839

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Swainson, William. 1839. The natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. Longman’s, London. Vol. 2: i-vi, 1-448.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Perciformes
family
Sparidae
genus
Calamus

Name

Synonyms
Aurata Catesby, 1771
Homonyms
Calamus Saussure, 1862
Calamus Swainson, 1839
Calamus L.
Calamus Garsault

Bibliographic References

  1. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  2. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N., 1990: null. Genera of Recent Fishes. iii + 697.
  4. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  5. FishBase
  6. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
  7. N. H. Fishes etc., 2, 171
  8. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  9. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  10. Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
  11. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
  12. Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 363: 1-560.
  13. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
  14. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
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