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 | |
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| Mulloidichthys flavolineatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Mullidae |
| Genus: | Mulloidichthys Whitley, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Mullus flavolineatus Lacépède, 1801 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Mulloides Bleeker, 1849 | |
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.
- 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.
- 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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