Deveximentum

Deveximentum
Deveximentum insidiator
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Leiognathidae
Genus: Deveximentum
Fowler, 1904
Type species
Zeus insidiator
Bloch, 1787[1]

Deveximentum is a genus of ponyfishes native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.[2]

Genus name

The genus had been once named as Secutor but Secutor was coined by Gistel in 1848 with Forsskål’s Scombrops equula as its type species, this being a synonym for Leiognathus equulus. In 1904 Fowler created the genus Deveximentum with Bloch’s Zeus insidiator as its type species. Catalog of Fishes states that as the type species for Secutor is synonymous with L. equulus then Secutor is a synonym of Leiognathus and prefers Fowler’s Deveximentum. [1]

Species

There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Leiognathidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Deveximentum". FishBase. August 2024 version.


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