| Photopectoralis aureus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Leiognathidae |
| Genus: | Photopectoralis |
| Species: | P. aureus |
| Binomial name | |
| Photopectoralis aureus (T. Abe & Haneda, 1972) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Leiognathus aureus Abe & Haneda | |
Photopectoralis aureus, commonly known as the golden ponyfish or false toothed ponyfish, is a marine ray-finned fish native to the Western Pacific from Taiwan south to Indonesia as well as to the Gulf of Thailand, Timor Sea, and the Arafura Sea. It grows to 10 cm (3.9 in) TL. This species was first formally described in 1972 as Leiognathus aureus by the Japanese ichthyologists Tokiharu Abe (1911-1996) and Yata Haneda (1907-1995) with the type locality given as Ambon fish market on Ambon Island. It is the type species of the genus Photopectoralis which was delineated by Sparks, Dunlap & W. L. Smith in 2005.
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Photopectoralis aureus". FishBase. August 2015 version.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Leiognathus aureus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Photopectoralis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
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| Photopectoralis aureus | |
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