Gazza

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Chaetodontiformes

Familia: Leiognathidae
Subfamilia: Gazzinae
Genus: Gazza
Species: G. achlamys – G. dentex – G. minuta – G. rhombea – G. squamiventralis
Name

Gazza Rüppell, 1835

Type species: Gazza equulaeformis Rüppell, 1835

Gazza minuta

References

Rüppell, E. 1835–1838. Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. In: Fische des Rothen Meeres. Siegmund Schmerber, Frankfurt am Main. i–ii + 1–148, Pls. 1–33. [1835: 1–28, Pls. 1–7; 1836: 29–52, Pls. 8–14; 1837: 53–80, Pls. 15–21; 1838 :81–148, Pls. 22–33.] BHL Reference page.

Links

Gazza – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Gazza species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names
English: Ponyfish
ไทย: ปลาแป้น, ปลาแปบทะเล

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]
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)

References

Rüppell, Eduard (1835). "Gazza, nov. Genus. Rüppell". Fische des rothen Meeres. Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Frankfurt am Main. pp. 3–4;Pl. 1, Fig. 3.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Gazza in FishBase. December 2013 version.
Jordan, David Starr; Starks, Edwin Chapin (1917). "Notes on a Collection of Fishes from Ceylon, with Descriptions of New Species". Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 11: 446–447;Pl. 45.
Cuvier, [G.]; Valenciennes, A. (1835). "L'Equula denté". Histoire naturelle des poissons. Vol. 10. Paris: F. G. Levrault. pp. 91–92.
Bloch, Marcus Elieser (1795). "Die kleine Makrele. Scomber minutus". Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. Vol. 9. Berlin. pp. 110–111;Pl. 429, Fig. 2.
Kimura, Seishi; Yamashita, Tsuyoshi; Iwatsuki, Yukio (2000). "A new species, Gazza rhombea, from the Indo-West Pacific, with a redescription of G. achlamys Jordan & Starks, 1917 (Perciformes: Leiognathidae)". Ichthyological Research. 47 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1007/BF02674308.
Yamashita, Tsuyoshi; Kimura, Seishi (2001). "A new species, Gazza squamiventralis, from the East Coast of Africa (Perciformes: Leiognathidae)". Ichthyological Research. 48 (2): 161–166. doi:10.1007/s10228-001-8131-8.