Species Nuchequula gerreoides (Bleeker, 1851)

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Species Nuchequula gerreoides (Bleeker, 1851)

Ornate Ponyfish, Black-neck Pony-fish, Hump-nosed Pony-fish, Yellowfinned Ponyfish

Equula gerreoides Bleeker, P. 1851. Over eenige nieuwe geslachten en soorten van Makreelachtige visschen van den Indischen Archipel. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 1: 341-372 [371].
Type data:
Neotype RMNH 35440 (Syntypes apparently are thought to be in RMNH 6140, making the neotype designation invalid, see Kottelat 2013: 340), Jakarta, Indonesia.
Subsequent designation references:
Kimura, S., Kimura, R. & Ikejima, K. 2008. Revision of the genus Nuchequula with descriptions of three new species (Perciformes: Leiognathidae). Ichthyological Research 55: 22-42 [31].
Equula argentea De Vis, C.W. 1884. New fishes in the Queensland Museum. No. 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 9(3): 537-547 [542] [secondary junior homonym of Leiognathus argenteus Lacépède, 1802].
Type data:
Lectotype QM I.1699, Cape York, QLD.
Paralectotype(s) QM (missing).
Subsequent designation references:
Whitley, G.P. 1929. Studies in Ichthyology No. 3. Records of the Australian Museum 17(3): 101-143 figs 1-5 pls 30-34 [115] (indicated that the only existing specimen may be designated the holotype, which is interpreted as deliberate misuse of the term holotype and an explicit indication of the name bearing type meeting Article 74.5 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as a lectotype designation); Whitley, G.P. 1932. Some fishes of the family Leiognathidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(2): 99-116 fig. 1 pls 13-14 [105] (specifically used the term "lectotype of Equula argentea De Vis = holotype of Leiognathus devisi Whitley"); Hoese, D.F. & Bray, D.J. 2006. Leiognathidae. pp. 1176-1182 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [1179] (used term lectotype based on intrepretaion mentioned under Whitley reference, but did not designate a lectotype).
Equula spiniceps Saville-Kent, W. 1893. The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its Products and Potentialities. London : W.H. Allen & Co., Limited. [xiii] + 388 pp. 21 figs 64 pls. [10] [nom. nud.].
Leiognathus devisi Whitley, G.P. 1929. Studies in Ichthyology No. 3. Records of the Australian Museum 17(3): 101-143 figs 1-5 pls 30-34 [113] [nom. nov. for Equula argentea De Vis, 1884].
Equula decora De Vis, C.W. 1884. New fishes in the Queensland Museum. No. 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 9(3): 537-547 [543].
Type data:
Lectotype QM I.1698, Cape York, QLD.
Paralectotype(s) QM I.4877, Cape York, QLD.
Subsequent designation references:
Whitley, G.P. 1932. Some fishes of the family Leiognathidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(2): 99-116 fig. 1 pls 13-14 [104, 105].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Generic Combinations

Nuchequula decora (De Vis, 1884). —
Chakrabarty, P. & Sparks, J.S. 2007. Phylogeny and taxonomic revision of Nuchequula Whitley, 1932 (Teleostei: Leiognathidae), with the description of a new species. American Museum Novitates 3588: 1-25 [16]
Leiognathus decorus (De Vis, 1884). —
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 145–329 [213]
Whitley, G.P. 1932. Some fishes of the family Leiognathidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(2): 99-116 fig. 1 pls 13-14 [104]
Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls. [188]
Jones, G. 1985. Revision of the Australian species of the fish family Leiognathidae. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 36: 559-613 figs 1-19 [578]
Woodland, D.J., Premcharoen, S. & Cabanban, A.S. 2001. Leiognathidae. pp. 2792-2823 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 5 2791-3379 pp. [2805]
Hoese, D.F. & Bray, D.J. 2006. Leiognathidae. pp. 1176-1182 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [1179]
Nuchequula gerreiodes (Bleeker, 1851). —
Kimura, S., Kimura, R. & Ikejima, K. 2008. Revision of the genus Nuchequula with descriptions of three new species (Perciformes: Leiognathidae). Ichthyological Research 55: 22-42 [31]
Leiognathus spiniceps (Saville-Kent, 1893). —
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 145–329 [212]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

Equula nuchalis Temminck & Schlegel, 1845. —
Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [135] (862, a misidentification)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

South of Onslow, WA (21°40'S) to off Yamba, NSW (29°25'S); tropical, Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)