Ponyfish

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Ponyfishes
Fossil range: Eocene to Present[1]
Splendid ponyfish, Leiognathus splendens
Splendid ponyfish, Leiognathus splendens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Leiognathidae
Genera

Gazza
Leiognathus
Secutor
See text for species.

The ponyfishes also known as slipmouths or slimys are a small family, Leiognathidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes.[2]

[edit] Species

  • Genus Gazza Rüppell, 1835
    • Smalltoothed ponyfish, Gazza achlamys Jordan & Starks, 1917.
    • Ovoid toothpony, Gazza dentex (Valenciennes, 1835).
    • Toothpony, Gazza minuta (Bloch, 1795).
    • Rhomboid toothpony, Gazza rhombea Kimura, Yamashita & Iwatsuki, 2000.
    • Scaled belly toothpony, Gazza squamiventralis Yamashita & Kimura, 2001.
  • Genus Leiognathus Lacépède, 1802
    • Golden ponyfish, Leiognathus aureus Abe & Haneda, 1972.
    • Berber ponyfish, Leiognathus berbis (Valenciennes, 1835).
    • Orangefin ponyfish, Leiognathus bindus (Valenciennes, 1835).
    • Twoblotch ponyfish, Leiognathus blochii (Valenciennes, 1835).
    • Shortnose ponyfish, Leiognathus brevirostris (Valenciennes, 1835).
    • Goldstripe ponyfish, Leiognathus daura (Cuvier, 1829).
    • Decorated ponyfish, Leiognathus decorus (De Vis, 1884).
    • Dussumier's ponyfish, Leiognathus dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1835).
    • Slender ponyfish, Leiognathus elongatus (Günther, 1874).
    • Common ponyfish, Leiognathus equulus (Forsskål, 1775).
    • Striped ponyfish, Leiognathus fasciatus (Lacépède, 1803).
    • Hatai's ponyfish, Leiognathus hataii Abe & Haneda, 1972.
    • Leiognathus klunzingeri (Steindachner, 1898).
    • Leiognathus kupanensis Kimura & Peristiwady, 2005.[3]
    • Whipfin ponyfish, Leiognathus leuciscus (Günther, 1860).
    • Ornate ponyfish, Leiognathus lineolatus (Valenciennes, 1835).
    • Leiognathus longispinis (Valenciennes, 1835).
    • Moreton Bay ponyfish, Leiognathus moretoniensis Ogilby, 1912.
    • Spotnape ponyfish Leiognathus nuchalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
    • Oblong ponyfish, Leiognathus oblongus (Valenciennes, 1835).
    • Leiognathus pan Wongratana, 1988.
    • Panay ponyfish, Leiognathus panayensis Kimura & Dunlap, 2003.
    • Leiognathus parviceps (Valenciennes, 1835).
    • Rapson's ponyfish, Leiognathus rapsoni Munro, 1964.
    • Slimy offshore ponyfish, Leiognathus rivulatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
    • Smithurst's ponyfish, Leiognathus smithursti (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886).
    • Leiognathus spilotus Fowler, 1904.
    • Splendid ponyfish, Leiognathus splendens (Cuvier, 1829).
    • Oblong slipmouth, Leiognathus stercorarius Evermann & Seale, 1907.
    • Leiognathus striatus James & Badrudeen, 1991.
  • Genus Secutor Gistel, 1848
    • Secutor hanedai Mochizuki & Hayashi, 1989.
    • Secutor indicius Monkolprasit, 1973.
    • Pugnose ponyfish, Secutor insidiator (Bloch, 1787).
    • Secutor interruptus (Valenciennes, 1835).
    • Secutor megalolepis Mochizuki & Hayashi, 1989.
    • Deep pugnose ponyfish, Secutor ruconius (Hamilton, 1822).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. 
  2. ^ "Leiognathidae". FishBase. Ed. Rainer Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
  3. ^ Seishi Kimura, Takahiro Ito, Teguh Peristiwady, Yukio Iwatsuki, Tetsuo Yoshino and Paul V. Dunlap (2005). "The Leiognathus splendens complex (Perciformes: Leiognathidae) with the description of a new species, Leiognathus kupanensis Kimura and Peristiwady". Ichthyological Research 52 (3): 275–291. doi:10.1007/s10228-005-0283-5.