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. 2012 Jul 17;7(7):e41059. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041059

Table 2. Coverage reported here of the speciose fish families listed by Floeter et al. [42] for the Western Atlantic (WA).

Family WAgenera generaherein % genericcoverage
Apogonidae 3 3 100%
Balistidae 4 3 75%
Batrachoididae 5 4 80%
Blenniidae 7 6 86%
Carangidae 10 8 80%
Chaenopsidae 10 5 50%
Dactyloscopidae 6 3 50%
Gobiesocidae 6 4 67%
Gobiidae 25 18 72%
Haemulidae 3 3 100%
Labridae 8 7 88%
Labrisomidae 5 4 80%
Lutjanidae 6 4 67%
Muraenidae 8 5 63%
Pomacentridae 4 4 100%
Scaridae 4 3 75%
Serranidae 27 11 41%
Sparidae 6 4 67%
Syngnathidae 9 7 78%
Tripterygidae 1 1 100%
Total genera 158 107 68%