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Pentapodus

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Pentapodus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nemipteridae, the threadfin breams. These fishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region.

Species

キツネウオ属

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderPerciformes
  5. FamilyNemipteridae
Habitatmarine, brackish

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
185
With media
5
Family
Nemipteridae
Collections
UWFC, USNM, LSUMZ, FMNH, WAM
Recorded in
Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Japan, Micronesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia

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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Taxonomy
  • Etymology
  • Species
  • Characteristics
  • Distribution
  • References

Pentapodus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Nemipteridae, the threadfin breams. These fishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region.

==Taxonomy== Pentapodus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1824 by the French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard when they described Pentapodus vitta from Shark Bay in Western Australia. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the genus Pentapodus within the family Nemipteridae which it places in the order Spariformes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pentapodus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.