Upeneichthys

Upeneichthys is a genus of goatfishes native to the Indian and Pacific coasts of Australia.^[2]

Upeneichthys
U. porosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Syngnathiformes
Family:	Mullidae
Genus:	Upeneichthys Bleeker, 1853[1][a]
Type species
Upeneus porosus Cuvier, 1829
Synonyms
Atahua Phillipps, 1941

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:^[2]

Species	Common name	Image
Upeneichthys lineatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801	Blue-lined goatfish
Upeneichthys porosus (Cuvier 1829)[3]
Upeneichthys stotti Hutchins, 1990	Stott's goatfish
Upeneichthys vlamingii (Cuvier, 1829)	Southern goatfish

Nota bene: Kim (2002) and the Catalog of Fishes currently treat U. porosus as its own species,^[3][4] while FishBase currently treats it as a synonym of U. lineatus.^[5]

Notes

1. Also in Bleeker, P. (1855). "Over eenige visschen van van Diemensland". Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. 2. Amsterdam: 1–30 + 31, 1 pl.