Pentapodus
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| Pentapodus | |
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| Pentapodus aureofasciatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Nemipteridae |
| Genus: | Pentapodus Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 |
| Type species | |
| Pentapodus vitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pentapodus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nemipteridae, the threadfin breams. These fishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region.
Pentapodus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1824 by the French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard[1] when they described Pentapodus vitta from Shark Bay in Western Australia.[2] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the genus Pentapodus within the family Nemipteridae which it places in the order Spariformes.[3]
Etymology
Pentapodus is a combination of penta, meaning "five", and podus, which means "foot", what this was alluding to was not explained by Quoy and Gaimard. However, according to Valenciennes, who called the genus “Pentapus” in 1835, it was a reference to the three long, pointed scales, one above root of each of the pelvic and pectoral fins with a single one between these, giving the appearance of five ventral fins.[4]
Species
Pentapodus contains the following recognised species:[5]
- Pentapodus aureofasciatus B. C. Russell, 2001 (yellowstripe threadfin bream)
- Pentapodus berryae G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Brooks, 2018 (Deep reef whiptail)
- Pentapodus bifasciatus (Bleeker, 1848) (white-shouldered whiptail)
- Pentapodus caninus (G. Cuvier, 1830) (small-toothed whiptail)
- Pentapodus emeryii (J. Richardson, 1843) (double whiptail)
- Pentapodus komodoensis G. R. Allen & Erdmann, 2012 (Komodo whiptail)
- Pentapodus nagasakiensis (S. Tanaka (I), 1915) (Japanese whiptail)
- Pentapodus numberii G. R. Allen & Erdmann, 2009 (Papuan whiptail)
- Pentapodus paradiseus (Günther, 1859) (paradise whiptail)
- Pentapodus porosus (Valenciennes, 1830) (Northwest Australian whiptail)
- Pentapodus setosus (Valenciennes, 1830) (butterfly whiptail)
- Pentapodus trivittatus (Bloch, 1791) (three-striped whiptail)
- Pentapodus vitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 (striped whiptail)