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On the type species of Trichopodus (Teleostei: Perciformes: Osphronemidae)

2009; Pensoft Publishers; Volume: 59; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3897/vz.59.e30948

2625-8498

Jörg Töpfer, Ingo Schindler,

Fish biology, ecology, and behavior

We examined the taxonomic papers about the type species fi xation of the genus Trichopodus LACEPÈDE, 1801. As the result we found that under the current version of the ICZN the designation of the type species by BLEEKER (1879) is the valid one. Therefore, the type species of Trichopodus is Labrus trichopterus PALLAS, 1770. The genus Trichopodus is a currently valid genus of Osphronemidae, which includes the following species: T. trichopterus, T. leerii, T. microlepis and T. cantoris.