Pegasus (fish)

Genus of ray-finned fishes

Pegasus

Pegasus tetrabelos
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Syngnathiformes
Family:  | Pegasidae
Genus:  | Pegasus
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Pegasus volitans

Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms

* Acanthopegasus McCulloch, 1915
* Cataphractus Gronow, 1763
* Leptopegasus Bleeker, 1872
* Parapegasus Duméril, 1870
* Spinipegasus Rendahl, 1930

Pegasus is a genus of seamoths found in coastal tropical marine waters. The name was taken from the winged horse Pegasus in Greek mythology.[1] The member species are distributed in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean waters around: Australia, Bahrain, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Tanzania and Thailand.[1]

## Species

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There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:

* Pegasus lancifer Kaup, 1861 (Sculptured seamoth)
* Pegasus laternarius G. Cuvier, 1816 (Brick seamoth)
* Pegasus volitans Linnaeus, 1758 (Long-tail seamoth)
* Pegasus tetrabelos Osterhage, Pogonoski, Appleyard & W. T. White, 2016 (Short-spined seamoth) [2]
* Pegasus sinensis Ying-Yi Zhang, Rong-Rong Zhang, Shao-Bo Ma, Shuai-Shuai Liu, Qiang Lin and Xin Wang], 2022 (Chinese seamoth)[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Pegasidae". FishBase. January 2016 version.
2. ^ .Osterhage, D., Pogonoski, J.J., Appleyard, S.A. & White, W.T. (2016): Integrated Taxonomy Reveals Hidden Diversity in Northern Australian Fishes: A New Species of Seamoth (Genus Pegasus). PLoS ONE, 11 (3): e0149415.
3. ^ Zhang YY, Zhang RR, Ma SB, Liu SS, Lin Q, Wang X (18 July 2022). "A new seamoth species of Pegasus (Syngnathiformes: Pegasidae) from the East China Sea". Zoological Research. 43 (4): 675–678\. doi:10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2022.109. PMC 9336449. PMID 35791615.675-678&rft.date=2022-07-18&rft_id=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9336449#id-name=PMC&rft_id=info:pmid/35791615&rft_id=info:doi/10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2022.109&rft.aulast=Zhang&rft.aufirst=Ying-Yi&rft.au=Zhang,+Rong-Rong&rft.au=Ma,+Shao-Bo&rft.au=Liu,+Shuai-Shuai&rft.au=Lin,+Qiang&rft.au=Wang,+Xin&rft_id=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9336449&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Pegasus+(fish)" class="Z3988">

Taxon identifiers

Pegasus|

* Wikidata: Q849131
* Wikispecies: Pegasus
* ADW: Pegasus
* AFD: Pegasus
* BOLD: 103429
* CoL: 6K4L
* GBIF: 2356568
* iNaturalist: 90886
* IRMNG: 1037726
* ITIS: 167634
* NCBI: 215341
* Open Tree of Life: 105915
* Plazi: 74D7296B-8D45-8A33-7DEB-81A22C5FAF9E
* WoRMS: 206710
* ZooBank: 65DF4FAD-7BD3-4094-94E4-73B24AE7C6E7

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