Photopectoralis_aureus

<i>Photopectoralis aureus</i>

Photopectoralis aureus

Species of fish

Photopectoralis aureus, commonly known as the golden ponyfish or false toothed ponyfish, is a marine fish native to the Western Pacific from Taiwan south to Indonesia as well as to the Gulf of Thailand, Timor Sea, and the Arafura Sea.[1] It grows to 10 cm (3.9 in) TL.[1] This species was first formally described in 1972 as Leiognathus aureus by the Japanese ichthyologists Tokiharu Abe (1911-1996) and Yata Haneda (1907-1995) with the type locality given as Ambon fish market on Ambon Island.[2] It is the type species of the genus Photopectoralis which was delineated by Sparks, Dunlap & W. L. Smith in 2005.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Photopectoralis aureus" in FishBase. August 2015 version.
  2. [2]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Leiognathus aureus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  3. [3]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Photopectoralis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
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