Marine Species Traits - Equulites Fowler, 1904

WoRMS taxon details

Equulites Fowler, 1904

AphiaID

296584 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:296584)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Leiognathidae Gill, 1893

Synonymised names

Photoplagios Sparks, Dunlap & Smith, 2005 · unaccepted

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Species Equulites absconditus Chakrabarty & Sparks, 2010
Species Equulites aethopos Suzuki & Kimura, 2017
Species Equulites elongatus (Günther, 1874)
Species Equulites klunzingeri (Steindachner, 1898)
Species Equulites laterofenestra (Sparks & Chakrabarty, 2007)
Species Equulites leuciscus (Günther, 1860)
Species Equulites lineolatus (Valenciennes, 1835)
Species Equulites oblongus (Valenciennes, 1835)
Species Equulites popei (Whitley, 1932)
Species Equulites rivulatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)
Species Equulites antongil (Sparks, 2006) accepted as Photolateralis antongil (Sparks, 2006)
Species Equulites moretoniensis (Ogilby, 1912) accepted as Photolateralis moretoniensis (Ogilby, 1912)
Species Equulites novae Hollandiae Steindachner, 1879 accepted as Equulites leuciscus (Günther, 1860) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
Species Equulites novaehollandiae Staeindachner, 1879 accepted as Equulites leuciscus (Günther, 1860) (synonym)
Species Equulites stercorarius (Evermann & Seale, 1907) accepted as Photolateralis stercorarius (Evermann & Seale, 1907)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Equulites Fowler, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=296584 on 2025-05-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-02-21 16:46:40Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Photoplagios Sparks, Dunlap & Smith, 2005) Sparks, J. S.; Dunlap, P. V.; Smith, W. L. (2005). Evolution and diversification of a sexually dimorphic luminescent system in ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae), including diagnoses for two new genera. <em>Cladistics.</em> 21(4): 305-327. [details]

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Language	Name
Japanese	イトヒキヒイラギ属	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Equulites)
To Genbank (from synonym Photoplagios Sparks, Dunlap & Smith, 2005)
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