Equulites

Genus of ray-finned fishes

Equulites

Equulites leuciscus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Acanthuriformes
Family:  | Leiognathidae
Genus:  | Equulites
Fowler, 1904
Type species
Leiognathus vermiculatus

Fowler, 1904[1]

Synonyms[2]

Photoplagios Sparks, Dunlap & Smith, 2005

Equulites is a genus of ponyfishes native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.[3] Analysis of mitochondrial DNA published in 2017 has suggested that Equulites elongates is in fact a species group made up of three species Equulites aethopos, Equulites elongates and Equulites popei.[4]

## Species

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There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[3][5]

* Equulites absconditus Chakrabarty & Sparks, 2010
* Equulites aethopos Suzuki & Kimura, 2017 (Red Sea elongated ponyfish)
* Equulites elongatus (Günther, 1874) (Slender ponyfish)
* Equulites klunzingeri (Steindachner, 1898)
* Equulites laterofenestra (Sparks & Chakrabarty, 2007)
* Equulites leuciscus (Günther, 1860) (Whipfin ponyfish)
* Equulites lineolatus (Valenciennes, 1835) (Ornate ponyfish)
* Equulites oblongus (Valenciennes, 1835) (Oblong ponyfish)
* Equulites popei (Whitley, 1932) (Pope's ponyfish)
* Equulites rivulatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)

## References

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1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Equulites". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Leiognathidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
3. ^ a b Sparks, J.S.; Chakrabarty, P. (2015). "Description of a new genus of ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae), with a review of the current generic-level composition of the family". Zootaxa. 3947 (2): 181–190\. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.2. PMID 25947728.
4. ^ Hiromu Suzuki; Seishi Kimura (2017). "Taxonomic revision of the Equulites elongatus (Günther 1874) species group (Perciformes: Leiognathidae) with the description of a new species". Ichthyological Research. 64 (3): 339. doi:10.1007/s10228-017-0572-9.
5. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Equulites". FishBase. Retrieved 17 November 2020.

Taxon identifiers

Equulites|

* Wikidata: Q2110072
* Wikispecies: Equulites
* AFD: Equulites
* BHL: 35214077
* BOLD: 191716
* CoL: 4DLN
* GBIF: 2396324
* iNaturalist: 88212
* IRMNG: 1026481
* NCBI: 334408
* Open Tree of Life: 524524
* WoRMS: 296584

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