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Leiognathus
''Leiognathus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, ponyfishes from the Family (biology), family Leiognathidae. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. They are sometimes known as silverbellies. Species There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus: * ''Leiognathus berbis'' (Achille Valenciennes, Valenciennes, 1835) (Berber ponyfish) * ''Leiognathus brevirostris'' (Achille Valenciennes, Valenciennes, 1835) (Shortnose ponyfish) * ''Leiognathus equulus'' (Peter Forsskål, Forsskål, 1775) (Common ponyfish) * ''Leiognathus longispinis'' (Achille Valenciennes, Valenciennes, 1835) (Longspine ponyfish) * ''Leiognathus parviceps'' (Achille Valenciennes, Valenciennes, 1835) * ''Leiognathus robustus'' John Stephen Sparks, Sparks & Paul V. Dunlap, Dunlap, 2004 * ''Leiognathus striatus'' P. S. B. R. James & Badrudeen, 1991 References

Leiognathus, Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède Fish of the Indian Ocean Fish of the Pacific Ocean ...
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Leiognathus Striatus
''Leiognathus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, ponyfishes from the family Leiognathidae. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. They are sometimes known as silverbellies. Species There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus: * '' Leiognathus berbis'' (Valenciennes, 1835) (Berber ponyfish) * '' Leiognathus brevirostris'' (Valenciennes, 1835) (Shortnose ponyfish) * ''Leiognathus equulus'' ( Forsskål, 1775) (Common ponyfish) * '' Leiognathus longispinis'' (Valenciennes, 1835) (Longspine ponyfish) * '' Leiognathus parviceps'' (Valenciennes Valenciennes (, also , , ; ; or ; ) is a communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced ..., 1835) * '' Leiognathus robustus'' Sparks & Dunlap, 2004 * '' Leiognathus striatus'' P. S. B. R. James & Badrudeen, 1991 References Taxa ...
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Leiognathus Longispinis
''Leiognathus longispinis'', commonly known as the longspine- or Smithurst's ponyfish, is a fish of brackish and marine waters found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, from India through Malaysia and Indonesia south to northern Australia and east to the Philippines and Fiji It was described in 1835 by French Zoologist Achille Valenciennes from a specimen caught off Waigeo island in Irian Jaya in New Guinea. In 1886 Ramsay and Ogilby described what turned out to the same species from Hood Lagoon in Papua New Guinea, naming it ''Leiognathus smithursti''. In 2008, ichthyologists Prosanta Chakrabarty and John S. Sparks resurrected the genus ''Aurigequula'' and placed ''L. longispinis'' and '' L. fasciatus'' in it, on the basis of a horizontal row of yellow markings on their flanks and elongated second spine of the dorsal fin. However, a molecular study showed that the genus ''Leiognathus'' was nested within ''Aurigequula'', and hence the genera were merged once more. Fishbase pl ...
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Leiognathus Equulus
''Leiognathus equula'', Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2023). FishBase. Leiognathus equulus (Forsskål, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218459 on 2023-11-16 the common ponyfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a ponyfish from the family Leiognathidae Leiognathidae, the ponyfishes, slipmouths or slimys / slimies, are a small family of fishes in the order Perciformes. They inhabit marine and brackish waters in the Indian and West Pacific Oceans. They can be used in the preparation of ''bagoo .... It occurs in brackish and marine waters from East Africa to Fiji in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, Red Sea and Persian Gulf. References External links Fishes of Australia : ''Leiognathus equulus'' equulus Bioluminescent fish Marine fish of East Africa common ponyfish Taxa named by Peter Forsskål {{Leiognathidae-stub ...
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Leiognathus Brevirostris
''Leiognathus brevirostris'', commonly known as the shortnose ponyfish, is a ray-finned fish of brackish and marine waters found from Indo-West Pacific to the Indian coasts and off Sri Lanka to China and south of Australia. Like its relatives, the fish is an amphidromous, demersal species which feeds on diatoms, copepods, ''Lucifer'', nematodes and polychaete Polychaeta () is a paraphyletic class of generally marine Annelid, annelid worms, common name, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes (). Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called c ...s. The fish has eight dorsal spines, sixteen dorsal soft rays, three anal spines and fourteen anal soft rays. Fresh specimens possess a golden gleam which fades with dryness. References External linksClassification
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Leiognathus Berbis
''Leiognathus berbis'', the Berber ponyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a ponyfish from the family Leiognathidae. It is found in brackish and marine waters in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Zanzibar east in the Indian Ocean to south-east Asia. Like its relatives, the fish is a demersal species that feeds on small crustaceans and bivalves. ''Equula berbis'' is considered by some authorities to be ''nomen dubium'' with the taxon it is assigned to being of uncertain placement beyond the family level, the name being thought to probably be a junior synonym In taxonomy, the scientific classification of living organisms, a synonym is an alternative scientific name for the accepted scientific name of a taxon. The botanical and zoological codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. ... of ''Equulites oblongus''. References Classification berbis Fish of the Pacific Ocean Fish of the Indian Ocean Bioluminescent fi ...
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Ponyfish
Leiognathidae, the ponyfishes, slipmouths or slimys / slimies, are a small family of fishes in the order Perciformes. They inhabit marine and brackish waters in the Indian and West Pacific Oceans. They can be used in the preparation of ''bagoong''. Characteristics Ponyfishes are small and laterally compressed in shape, with a bland, silvery colouration. They are distinguished by highly extensible mouths, and the presence of a mechanism for locking the spines in the dorsal and anal fins. They also possess a highly integrated light organ in their throats that houses symbiotic bioluminescent bacteria that project light through the animal's underside. Typically, the harbored bacterium is only ''Photobacterium leiognathi'', but in the two ponyfish species ''Photopectoralis panayensis'' and ''Photopectoralis bindus'', ''Photobacterium mandapamensis'' is also present. Two of the most widely studied uses for luminescence in ponyfish are camouflage by ventral counterillumination and spe ...
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Fish Of The Indian Ocean
A fish (: fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits. Fish can be grouped into the more basal jawless fish and the more common jawed fish, the latter including all living cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as the extinct placoderms and acanthodians. In a break to the long tradition of grouping all fish into a single class (Pisces), modern phylogenetics views fish as a paraphyletic group. Most fish are cold-blooded, their body temperature varying with the surrounding water, though some large active swimmers like white shark and tuna can hold a higher core temperature. Many fish can communicate acoustically with each other, such as during courtship displays. The study of fish is known as ichthyology. The earliest fish appeared during the Cambrian as small filter feeders; they continued to evolve through the Paleozoic, diversifying into many forms. The earliest fish w ...
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Taxa Named By Bernard Germain De Lacépède
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; : taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking, especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established. It is very common, however, for taxonomists to remain at odds over what belongs to a taxon and the criteria used for inclusion, especially in the context of rank-based (" Linnaean") nomenclature (much less so under phylogenetic nomenclature). If a taxon is given a formal scientific name, its use is then governed by one of the nomenclature codes specifying which scientific name is correct for a particular grouping. Initial attempts at classifying and ordering organisms (plants and animals) were presumably set forth in prehistoric times by hunter-gatherers, as suggested by the fairly sophisticated folk taxonomies. Much later, Aristotle, and later still ...
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