Assiculus

Taxobox
name = "Assiculus"


image_caption = "Assiculus punctatus" from John Lort Stokes' 1846 "Discoveries in Australia"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Pseudochromidae
genus = "Assiculus"
species = "A. punctatus"
binomial = "Assiculus punctatus"
binomial_authority = Richardson, 1846

"Assiculus" is a genus of fish in the "dottyback" family Pseudochromidae. It is monotypic, containing only "Assiculus punctatus".

The genus and species were first published by Sir John Richardson in an appendix to Volume 1 of John Lort Stokes' 1846 "Discoveries in Australia".

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