Synodus mundyi

Mundy's arrowtooth lizardfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Aulopiformes
Family: Synodontidae
Genus: Synodus
Species:
S. mundyi
Binomial name
Synodus mundyi

Synodus mundyi (Mundy's arrowtooth lizardfish) is a lizardfish of the family Synodontidae, found in the Hawaiian Islands, at depths of between 9 and 200 m. Its length is between 15 and 28 cm.

Taxonomy

Synodus mundyi was previously identified as Synodus doaki by many authors, but Randall (2009) noted that Hawaiian specimens differ from S. doaki in the scale counts and numbers of anal rays, and named them S. mundyi, in honor of Bruce C. Mundy.[1]

References

  1. ^ Randall, J.E. 2009. Five new Indo-Pacific lizardfishes of the genus Synodus (Aulopiformes: Synodontidae). Zoological Studies 48(3): 402-417.
  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Synodus mundyi". FishBase. April 2012 version.


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