Parequula Steindachner 1879a

Iwatsuki, Yukio, Pogonoski, John J. & Last, Peter, 2012, Revision of the genus Parequula (Pisces: Gerreidae) with a new species from southwestern Australia, Zootaxa 3425, pp. 42-54 : 43

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.282006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6173482
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scientific name	Parequula Steindachner 1879a
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Parequula Steindachner 1879a View in CoL View at ENA

Parequula Steindachner 1879a: 8 View in CoL (type species: Gerres melbournensis Castelnau 1872 View in CoL ).

Chthamalopteryx Ogilby 1888: 616 (type species: Parequula bicornis Steindachner 1879 ).

Diagnosis. The genus Parequula is defined as follows: body oblong to deep and compressed; mouth protractile; teeth small, pointed, absent from palatine, vomer and tongue; preopercular edge slightly serrate; opercle without spine; dorsal and anal fins with low, basal scaly sheath; body scales deciduous; lateral line complete; dorsal fin continuous, anterior spines shorter than those behind, fin low anteriorly with height increasing progressively to its centre; head profile above eyes from slightly concave, through straight, to slightly convex; dorsal profile of snout broad and flat; dorsal-fin rays IX, 15–18; anal-fin rays III, 14–18; branchiostegals 6; pseudobranchiae present; 3 supraneural bones (0/0/0+2/), but its formula rarely 0/0+0/2/; upper caudal fin rays (dorsal) 17–22, lower caudal fin rays (ventral) 15–18, total caudal fin rays 32–40, upper procurrent rays (dorsal) 8–13, lower procurrent rays (ventral) 7–10, total procurrent rays 15–23; vertebrae 10+15.

References

Castelnau, F. L. (1872) Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. No. 1. - The Melbourne fish market (pp. 29 - 242). No. II. - Note on some South Australian fishes (pp. 243 - 247). Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria, 1, 29 - 247.

Ogilby, J. D. (1888) On a new genus of Percidae. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1887 (pt 4), 616 - 618.

Steindachner, F. (1879 a) Uber einige neue und seltene Fisch-Arten aus den k. k. zoologischen Museum zu Wien, Stuttgart, und Warschau. Denkschriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, 41, 1 - 52, pls. 1 - 9.