Mulloidichthys

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]

Mulloidichthys
Mulloidichthys flavolineatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Mullidae
Genus: Mulloidichthys
Whitley, 1929
Type species
Mullus flavolineatus
Synonyms

Mulloides Bleeker, 1849
Pseudomulloides Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915

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)
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References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Mulloidichthys in FishBase. January 2016 version.
  2. Lieske, E. & Myers, R. (2002). Coral Reef Fishes: Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean Including the Red Sea. HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 400. ISBN 9780691089959.
  3. Uiblein, F. (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.
  4. Fernandez-Silva, I., Randall, J.E., Golani, D. & Bogorodsky, S.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.


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