Gazza is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, ponyfishes from the family Leiognathidae which are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.[2]
Gazza | |
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G. minuta. | |
G. achlamys. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Leiognathidae |
Genus: | Gazza Rüppell, 1835[1] |
Type species | |
Gazza equulaeformis Rüppell, 1835 |
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Gazza achlamys D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1917[3] (Smalltoothed ponyfish)
- Gazza dentex (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1835)[4] (Ovoid toothpony)
- Gazza minuta (Bloch, 1795)[5] (Toothpony)
- Gazza rhombea Kimura, Yamashita & Iwatsuki, 2000[6] (Rhomboid toothpony)
- Gazza squamiventralis Yamashita & Kimura, 2001[7] (Scaled belly toothpony)