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DIAGNOSIS: Members of
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are distinguished from all other leiognathids by a combination of large adult body size (.
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SL), the absence of large round blotches of pigment on the flank, and the presence of a strongly ventrally protracting mouth.
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REMARKS: Members of
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can be further distinguished from all other ponyfishes, except
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, by the presence of a nonsexually dimorphic light organ. The absence of flank pigmentation or the possession of faint yellowish or grayish-yellow vermiculate lines or vertical bars on the dorsal flank also distinguishes members of
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from all other ponyfishes, except
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. Members of
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can be further distinguished from members of
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by the presence of a strongly concave lower jaw profile (versus straight or nearly straight in
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). All explicit phylogenetic studies of
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to date have recovered a paraphyletic
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(
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;
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; Chakrabarty et al., MS). In accordance with the results of these studies, we restrict the name
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to the clade containing the
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(see
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), and two other described species,
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<emphasis id="B97EEAFDFF85FFECC297FACFCCFF6D50" box="[701,951,1376,1400]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Leiognathus robustus</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="B97EEAFDFF85FFECC360FAD2CB7E6DBD" box="[842,1078,1405,1429]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Leiognathus striatus</emphasis>
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, a species rarely mentioned in the literature and even more rarely encountered in museum collections. This restricted concept of
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<emphasis id="B97EEAFDFF85FFECC366FA5CCC9C6E23" box="[844,980,1523,1547]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Leiognathus</emphasis>
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is recovered as the sister group to all other members of
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, less
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<emphasis id="B97EEAFDFF85FFECC391F980CB416E6F" box="[955,1033,1583,1607]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Equula</emphasis>
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(fig. 1). Other ponyfish species in the literature currently referred to
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<emphasis id="B97EEAFDFF85FFECC36DF9C6CC876EA9" box="[839,975,1641,1665]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Leiognathus</emphasis>
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, but not included in our restricted concept of this genus, are provided novel or resurrected generic assignments below on the basis of apomorphic morphological features. The lineage labeled
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sp. Sri Lanka in figure 1 is recovered as a member of
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<emphasis id="B97EEAFDFF83FFEAC13EFEA1CED4690E" box="[276,412,270,294]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Leiognathus</emphasis>
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in Chakrabarty et al. (MS). The taxonomy of this group is further dealt with in that manuscript rather than here, because the species-level status of
<emphasis id="B97EEAFDFF83FFEAC23FFEC9CD666956" box="[533,558,358,382]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">L.</emphasis>
sp.
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cannot be determined due to a lack of morphological vouchers (only a tissue sample was available to
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).
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<emphasis id="B97EEAFDFF83FFEAC0B0FE72CECC69DD" box="[154,388,477,501]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Leiognathus striatus</emphasis>
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can be distinguished from its congeners by the presence of an extremely deep body with a strongly convex dorsal profile (owing to the presence of a pronounced occipital hump) and a pigmentation pattern on the dorsal flank comprising broad yellow vertical bars.
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<emphasis id="B97EEAFDFF83FFEAC192FD21CFE86AEB" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Leiognathus robustus</emphasis>
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can be distinguished from its congeners by the absence of a pronounced occipital hump and the presence of a mildly sloping predorsal profile (see
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).
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<emphasis id="B97EEAFDFF83FFEAC0AAFC8ECE266B11" box="[128,366,801,825]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Leiognathus equulus</emphasis>
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is distinguished from congeners by the combination of a strongly sloping predorsal profile with a pronounced occipital hump and the absence of yellow vertical bars on the flank.
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