Biology:Mulloidichthys
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Mulloidichthys | |
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| Mulloidichthys flavolineatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Mullidae |
| Genus: | Mulloidichthys Whitley, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Mullus flavolineatus Lacépède, 1801
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| Synonyms | |
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Mulloides Bleeker, 1849 | |
Mulloidichthys is a genus of fish in the family Mullidae native to coral and rocky reefs of the tropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.[1][2]
Species
There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:
- Mulloidichthys ayliffe Uiblein, 2011 (Indian mimic goatfish) [3]
- Mulloidichthys dentatus (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Mexican goatfish)
- Mulloidichthys flavolineatus (Lacépède, 1801)
- M. f. flavicaudus Fernández-Silva & J. E. Randall, 2016 (Yellow-tail goatfish) [4]
- M. f. flavolineatus (Lacépède, 1801) (Yellow-stripe goatfish)
- Mulloidichthys martinicus (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Yellow goatfish)
- Mulloidichthys mimicus J. E. Randall & Guézé, 1980 (Mimic goatfish)
- Mulloidichthys pfluegeri (Steindachner, 1900) (Orange goatfish)
- Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes, 1831) (Yellow-fin goatfish)
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Mulloidichthys in FishBase. January 2016 version.
- ↑ Lieske, E.; Myers, R. (2002). Coral Reef Fishes: Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean Including the Red Sea. HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 400. ISBN 9780691089959. https://archive.org/details/coralreeffishes00lies/page/400.
- ↑ Uiblein, Franz (2011). "Taxonomic review of Western Indian Ocean goatfishes of the genus Mulloidichthys (Family Mullidae), with description of a new species and remarks on colour and body form variation in Indo-West Pacific species". Smithiana Bulletin 13: 51–73. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/248804.
- ↑ Fernandez-Silva, Iria; Randall, John E.; Golani, Daniel; Bogorodsky, Sergey V. (2016). "Mulloidichthys flavolineatus flavicaudus Fernandez-Silva & Randall (Perciformes, Mullidae), a new subspecies of goatfish from the Red Sea and Arabian Sea". ZooKeys (605): 131–157. doi:10.3897/zookeys.605.8060. PMID 27551217.
Wikidata ☰ Q2265003 entry
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