Mulloidichthys

Mulloidichthys
Mulloidichthys flavolineatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Syngnathiformes
Family:	Mullidae
Genus:	Mulloidichthys Whitley, 1929
Type species
Mullus flavolineatus Lacépède, 1801
Synonyms
Mulloides Bleeker, 1849 Pseudomulloides Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915

Mulloidichthys is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mullidae native to coral and rocky reefs of the tropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.[1][2]

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

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Mulloidichthys". FishBase. January 2016 version.
2. Lieske, E. & Myers, R. (2002). Coral Reef Fishes: Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean Including the Red Sea. HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 400. ISBN 9780691089959.
3. Uiblein, Franz (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.
4. Fernandez-Silva, Iria; Randall, John E.; Golani, Daniel; Bogorodsky, Sergey 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.605.8060. PMC 4978075. PMID 27551217.