Hypoatherina

Hypoatherina is a genus of silversides in the family Atherinidae. There are found in the tropical habitats of Indian and Pacific to the western Atlantic Ocean.

Hypoatherina
Barnes' silverside, Maldives
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Atheriniformes
Family:	Atherinidae
Subfamily:	Atherinomorinae
Genus:	Hypoatherina L. P. Schultz, 1948
Type species
Atherina uisila Jordan & Seale, 1906[1]

Species

There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus:^[2]

• Hypoatherina barnesi L. P. Schultz, 1953 (Barnes' silverside)
• Hypoatherina celebesensis D. Sasaki & Kimura, 2012^[3] (Sulawesi silverside)
• Hypoatherina gobio (Klunzinger, 1884)
• Hypoatherina golanii D. Sasaki & Kimura, 2012^[4] (Red Sea silverside)
• Hypoatherina klunzingeri (Smith, 1965)
• Hypoatherina lunata D. Sasaki & Kimura, 2012^[4] (Okinawan silverside)
• Hypoatherina macrophthalma D. Sasaki & Kimura, 2012 ^[3]
• Hypoatherina ovalaua (Herre, 1935) (Fijian silverside)
• Hypoatherina panatela (D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1908) (panatela silverside)
• Hypoatherina temminckii (Bleeker, 1854) (Samoan silverside)
• Hypoatherina tropicalis (Whitley, 1948) (Whitley's silverside)
• Hypoatherina tsurugae (D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1901) (Cobalt silverside)
• Hypoatherina uisila (D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1906) (Pacific silverside)
• Hypoatherina villosa (Duncker & Mohr, 1926)

Fishbase has H. gobio as a synonym of H. temminckii and H. klunzingeri as a synonym of H. barnesi, while H. panatela is listed as Stenatherina panatela,^[5] other authorities include these species within Hypoatherina and place H. crenolepsis, H. harringtonensis, H. ovalaua in the genus Atherina and H. valencennei in Doboatherina.^[2][6]