{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Equulites leuciscus.jpg | image_caption = ''Equulites leuciscus'' | taxon = Equulites | authority = Fowler, 1904 | type_species = ''Leiognathus vermiculatus'' | type_species_authority = Fowler, 1904<ref name = CofF>{{Cof record|genid=5179|title=Equulites|access-date=17 November 2020}}</ref> | synonyms = ''Photoplagios'' <small>Sparks, Dunlap & Smith, 2005</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = CofF1>{{Cof family | family = Leiognathidae | access-date = 17 November 2020}}</ref> }}
'''''Equulites''''' is a genus of ponyfishes native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.<ref name=Sparks2015>{{cite journal|last1=Sparks|first1=J.S.|last2=Chakrabarty|first2=P.|date=2015|title=Description of a new genus of ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae), with a review of the current generic-level composition of the family|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275099472|journal=Zootaxa|volume=3947|issue=2|pages=181–190|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.2|pmid=25947728}}</ref> Analysis of mitochondrial DNA published in 2017 has suggested that ''Equulites elongatus'' is in fact a species group made up of three species ''Equulites aethopos'', ''Equulites elongatus'' and ''Equulites popei''.<ref name = Suzuki>{{cite journal | author1 = Hiromu Suzuki | author2 = Seishi Kimura | year = 2017 | title = Taxonomic revision of the ''Equulites elongatus'' (Günther 1874) species group (Perciformes: Leiognathidae) with the description of a new species | doi = 10.1007/s10228-017-0572-9 | journal = Ichthyological Research| volume = 64 | issue = 3 | pages = 339 }}</ref>
==Species== There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:<ref name=Sparks2015/><ref name =CofG>{{Cof genus | genus = Equulites | accessdate = 8 February 2026}}</ref> * ''Equulites aethopos'' <small>Suzuki & Kimura, 2017</small> (Red Sea elongated ponyfish) * ''Equulites berbis'' <small>(Valenciennes, 1835)</small> (Berber ponyfish) * ''Equulites elongatus'' <small>(Günther, 1874)</small> (Slender ponyfish) * ''Equulites laterofenestra'' <small>(Sparks & Chakrabarty, 2007)</small> * ''Equulites leuciscus'' <small>(Günther, 1860)</small> (Whipfin ponyfish) * ''Equulites macrolepis'' <small>Suzuki, Osmany & Kimura, 2023</small> (Largescale ponyfish) * ''Equulites oblongus'' <small>(Valenciennes, 1835)</small> (Oblong ponyfish) * ''Equulites popei'' <small>(Whitley, 1932)</small> (Pope's ponyfish) * ''Equulites rivulatus'' <small>(Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)</small> * ''Equulites ryukyuensis'' <small>Kimura & Suzuki, 2023</small> (Okinawan whip-fin ponyfish) ;Synonyms * ''Equulites absconditus'' <small>Chakrabarty & Sparks, 2010</small>; valid as ''E. berbis'' * ''Equulites klunzingeri'' <small>(Steindachner, 1898)</small>; valid as ''E. berbis'' * ''Equulites vermiculatus'' <small>Fowler, 1904</small>; valid as ''E. berbis''
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Category:Equulites Category:Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler Category:Fish described in 1904
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