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Upeneichthys
Sign in to saveUpeneichthys is a genus of goatfishes native to the Indian and Pacific coasts of Australia.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyMullidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 19
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Mullidae
- Collections
- USNM, NMV, BPBM, ZMO, SAMA, MAGNT
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Australia, Philippines, Taiwan, Venezuela, Brazil
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Upeneichthys is a genus of goatfishes native to the Indian and Pacific coasts of Australia.
==Species== There are currently four recognized species in this genus: {| class="wikitable" |+ !Species !Common name !Image |- |Upeneichthys lineatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 |Blue-lined goatfish |frameless |- |Upeneichthys porosus (Cuvier 1829) | |frameless |- |Upeneichthys stotti Hutchins, 1990 |Stott's goatfish | |- |Upeneichthys vlamingii (Cuvier, 1829) |Southern goatfish |frameless |} Nota bene: Kim (2002) and the Catalog of Fishes currently treat U. porosus as its own species, while FishBase currently treats it as a synonym of U. lineatus.
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