Ponyfish

Taxobox
name = Ponyfishes
fossil_range = Eocene to Present [cite journal | last = Sepkoski | first = Jack | title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera | journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology | volume = 364 | pages = p.560 | date = 2002 | url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class | accessdate = 2008-01-08 ]

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image_caption = Splendid ponyfish, "Leiognathus splendens"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Leiognathidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision ="Gazza" "Leiognathus" "Secutor" See text for species.The ponyfishes also known as slipmouths or slimys are a small family, Leiognathidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. [FishBase family|family=Leiognathidae|year=2006|month=February]

pecies

* Genus "Gazza" Rüppell, 1835
** Smalltoothed ponyfish, "Gazza achlamys" Jordan & Starks, 1917.
** Ovoid toothpony, "Gazza dentex" (Valenciennes, 1835).
** Toothpony, "Gazza minuta" (Bloch, 1795).
** Rhomboid toothpony, "Gazza rhombea" Kimura, Yamashita & Iwatsuki, 2000.
** Scaled belly toothpony, "Gazza squamiventralis" Yamashita & Kimura, 2001.
* Genus "Leiognathus" Lacépède, 1802
** Golden ponyfish, "Leiognathus aureus" Abe & Haneda, 1972.
** Berber ponyfish, "Leiognathus berbis" (Valenciennes, 1835).
** Orangefin ponyfish, "Leiognathus bindus" (Valenciennes, 1835).
** Twoblotch ponyfish, "Leiognathus blochii" (Valenciennes, 1835).
** Shortnose ponyfish, "Leiognathus brevirostris" (Valenciennes, 1835).
** Goldstripe ponyfish, "Leiognathus daura" (Cuvier, 1829).
** Decorated ponyfish, "Leiognathus decorus" (De Vis, 1884).
** Dussumier's ponyfish, "Leiognathus dussumieri" (Valenciennes, 1835).
** Slender ponyfish, "Leiognathus elongatus" (Günther, 1874).
** Common ponyfish, "Leiognathus equulus" (Forsskål, 1775).
** Striped ponyfish, "Leiognathus fasciatus" (Lacépède, 1803).
** Hatai's ponyfish, "Leiognathus hataii" Abe & Haneda, 1972.
** "Leiognathus klunzingeri" (Steindachner, 1898).
** "Leiognathus kupanensis" Kimura & Peristiwady, 2005. [cite journal | journal = Ichthyological Research | doi = 10.1007/s10228-005-0283-5 | volume = 52 | issue = 3 | year = 2005 | pages = 275–291 | title = The "Leiognathus splendens" complex (Perciformes: Leiognathidae) with the description of a new species, "Leiognathus kupanensis" Kimura and Peristiwady | author = Seishi Kimura, Takahiro Ito, Teguh Peristiwady, Yukio Iwatsuki, Tetsuo Yoshino and Paul V. Dunlap]
** Whipfin ponyfish, "Leiognathus leuciscus" (Günther, 1860).
** Ornate ponyfish, "Leiognathus lineolatus" (Valenciennes, 1835).
** "Leiognathus longispinis" (Valenciennes, 1835).
** Moreton Bay ponyfish, "Leiognathus moretoniensis" Ogilby, 1912.
** Spotnape ponyfish "Leiognathus nuchalis" (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
** Oblong ponyfish, "Leiognathus oblongus" (Valenciennes, 1835).
** "Leiognathus pan" Wongratana, 1988.
** Panay ponyfish, "Leiognathus panayensis" Kimura & Dunlap, 2003.
** "Leiognathus parviceps" (Valenciennes, 1835).
** Rapson's ponyfish, "Leiognathus rapsoni" Munro, 1964.
** Slimy offshore ponyfish, "Leiognathus rivulatus" (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
** Smithurst's ponyfish, "Leiognathus smithursti" (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886).
** "Leiognathus spilotus" Fowler, 1904.
** Splendid ponyfish, "Leiognathus splendens" (Cuvier, 1829).
** Oblong slipmouth, "Leiognathus stercorarius" Evermann & Seale, 1907.
** "Leiognathus striatus" James & Badrudeen, 1991.
* Genus "Secutor" Gistel, 1848
** "Secutor hanedai" Mochizuki & Hayashi, 1989.
** "Secutor indicius" Monkolprasit, 1973.
** Pugnose ponyfish, "Secutor insidiator" (Bloch, 1787).
** "Secutor interruptus" (Valenciennes, 1835).
** "Secutor megalolepis" Mochizuki & Hayashi, 1989.
** Deep pugnose ponyfish, "Secutor ruconius" (Hamilton, 1822).

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