Equulites
Genus of ray-finned fishes
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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 elongatus is in fact a species group made up of three species Equulites aethopos, Equulites elongatus and Equulites popei.[4]
| Equulites | |
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| Equulites leuciscus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Leiognathidae |
| Subfamily: | Gazzinae |
| Genus: | Equulites Fowler, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| Leiognathus vermiculatus Fowler, 1904[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Photoplagios Sparks, Dunlap & Smith, 2005 | |
Species
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[3][5]
- Equulites aethopos Suzuki & Kimura, 2017 (Red Sea elongated ponyfish)
- Equulites berbis (Valenciennes, 1835) (Berber ponyfish)
- Equulites elongatus (Günther, 1874) (Slender ponyfish)
- Equulites laterofenestra (Sparks & Chakrabarty, 2007)
- Equulites leuciscus (Günther, 1860) (Whipfin ponyfish)
- Equulites macrolepis Suzuki, Osmany & Kimura, 2023 (Largescale ponyfish)
- Equulites oblongus (Valenciennes, 1835) (Oblong ponyfish)
- Equulites popei (Whitley, 1932) (Pope's ponyfish)
- Equulites rivulatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)
- Equulites ryukyuensis Kimura & Suzuki, 2023 (Okinawan whip-fin ponyfish)
- Synonyms
- Equulites absconditus Chakrabarty & Sparks, 2010; valid as E. berbis
- Equulites klunzingeri (Steindachner, 1898); valid as E. berbis
- Equulites vermiculatus Fowler, 1904; valid as E. berbis
