WoRMS taxon details
Pegasidae Bonaparte, 1831
- Genus Eurypegasus Bleeker, 1863
- Genus Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758
- Genus Acanthopegasus McCulloch, 1915 accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758
- Genus Cataphractus Gronow, 1763 accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym)
- Genus Leptopegasus Bleeker, 1872 accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758
- Genus Pégase accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling)
- Genus Pegasis accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling)
- Genus Pegassus accepted as Pegasus Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling)
- Genus Surypegasus accepted as Eurypegasus Bleeker, 1863 (misspelling)
- Genus Zalises Jordan & Snyder, 1901 accepted as Eurypegasus Bleeker, 1863
marine, brackish, terrestrial
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Distribution Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Body broad and depressed (aberrant), contained in bony plates. Mouth small and inferior;...
Distribution Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Body broad and depressed (aberrant), contained in bony plates. Mouth small and inferior; toothless. Rostrum long and flattened arising from a fusion of the nasals. Jaws protrusible. Gill filaments lobelike and with tufts. Opercle and subopercle very small. Preopercle very much enlarged. Dorsal and anal fins short, spineless and usually with 5 soft rays each. Relatively large and horizontal pectoral fins; unbranched rays 10-18. Pelvics abdominal; spine 1; soft rays 1-3. Caudal fin rays 8; the peduncle quadrangular. Branchiostegal rays 5; filamentous. No supracleithrum and post cleithrum. Circumorbital bones 3; lachrymal bone the largest. Swimm bladder absent. Vertebrae 19-22, first 6 abdominal vertebrae elongated. About 13 cm maximum length. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Pegasidae Bonaparte, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154575 on 2024-11-10
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taxonomy source
Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 [details] Available for editors 
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basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2024). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2024., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
[request]basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2024). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2024., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Body broad and depressed (aberrant), contained in bony plates. Mouth small and inferior; toothless. Rostrum long and flattened arising from a fusion of the nasals. Jaws protrusible. Gill filaments lobelike and with tufts. Opercle and subopercle very small. Preopercle very much enlarged. Dorsal and anal fins short, spineless and usually with 5 soft rays each. Relatively large and horizontal pectoral fins; unbranched rays 10-18. Pelvics abdominal; spine 1; soft rays 1-3. Caudal fin rays 8; the peduncle quadrangular. Branchiostegal rays 5; filamentous. No supracleithrum and post cleithrum. Circumorbital bones 3; lachrymal bone the largest. Swimm bladder absent. Vertebrae 19-22, first 6 abdominal vertebrae elongated. About 13 cm maximum length. [details]
