Pentapodus
| Pentapodus | |
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| Pentapodus aureofasciatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Nemipteridae |
| Genus: | Pentapodus Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 |
| Type species | |
| Pentapodus vitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pentapodus is a genus of threadfin breams native to the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.[1]
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Pentapodus aureofasciatus B. C. Russell, 2001 (yellowstripe threadfin bream)
- 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)
References
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). Species of Pentapodus in FishBase. February 2014 version.
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