Leiognathus equulus

Leiognathus equulus, the common ponyfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a ponyfish from the family Leiognathidae. It occurs in brackish and marine waters from East Africa to Fiji in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, Red Sea and Persian Gulf.[2]

Leiognathus equulus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Leiognathidae
Genus: Leiognathus
Species:
L. equulus
Binomial name
Leiognathus equulus
(Forsskål, 1775)
Synonyms[2]
  • Scomber equula Forsskål, 1775
  • Leiognathus equula (Forsskål, 1775)
  • Scomber edentulus Bloch, 1795
  • Equula edentula (Bloch, 1795)
  • Leiognathus edentulus (Bloch, 1795)
  • Leiognathus argenteus Lacépède, 1802
  • Equula ensifera Cuvier, 1829
  • Equula totta Cuvier, 1829
  • Equula caballa Valenciennes, 1835
  • Leiognathus obscura Seale, 1901

References
  1. Larson, H.; Kaymaram, F.; Hartmann, S.; Al-Husaini, M.; Almukhtar, M.; Alam, S.; Sparks, J.S. (2017). "Leiognathus equulus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T196417A53990344. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T196417A53990344.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Leiognathus equulus" in FishBase. December 2006 version.


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