Freshwater mullet
| Freshwater mullet | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Mugiliformes |
| Family: | Mugilidae |
| Genus: | Pseudomyxus Duranda, Chen, Shen, Cuizhang Fu, and Borsa, 2012 |
| Species: | P. capensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudomyxus capensis (Valenciennes, 1836) | |
The freshwater mullet (Pseudomyxus capensis) is a species of fish in the Mugilidae family. It is endemic to South Africa.
Taxonomy
The freshwater mullet was previously assigned to Myxus, but genetic studies in 2012 found it to be more closely related to the Fringelip mullet than to the Sand grey mullet, necessitating erection of Pseudomyxus for M. capensis.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Swartz, E.; Impson, D. & Cambray, J. (2007). "Myxus capensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2007: e.T14264A4428878. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T14264A4428878.en. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
- ↑ Durand, J.-D., Shen, K.-N., Chen, W.-J., Jamandre, B.-W., Blel, H., Diop, K., et al. 2012. Systematics of the grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugiliformes: Mugilidae): molecular phylogenetic evidence challenges two centuries of morphology-based taxonomy. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 64, 73–92. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.006
- ↑ Durand, J.-D., W.-J. Chen, K.-N. Shen, C. Fu, & P. Borsa. 2012. Genus-level taxonomic changes implied b mitochondrial phylogeny of grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugilidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies, 335: 687-697.
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