Pterygotrigla
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Pterygotrigla is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of fish in the family Triglidae. It contains eighteen described species.

Species

  • Pterygotrigla acanthomoplate Fowler, 1938.
  • Pterygotrigla andertoni Waite, 1910.
  • Mauritius gurnard, Pterygotrigla guezei Fourmanoir, 1963.
  • Blackspotted gurnard, Pterygotrigla hemisticta Temminck
    Coenraad Jacob Temminck
    Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist.Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe was the standard work on European birds...

     & Schlegel
    Hermann Schlegel
    Hermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...

    , 1843
    .
  • Pterygotrigla hoplites Fowler, 1938.
  • Black-finned gurnard, Pterygotrigla leptacanthus (Günther, 1880).
  • Pterygotrigla macrolepidota Kamohara, 1938.
  • Pterygotrigla macrorhynchus Fowler, 1938.
  • Pterygotrigla megalops Fowler, 1938.
  • Antrorse spined gurnard, Pterygotrigla multiocellata Matsubara, 1937.
  • Pterygotrigla multipunctata Yatou & Yamakawa, 1983.
  • Yellow spotted gurnard, Pterygotrigla pauli Hardy, 1982.
  • Spotted gurnard, Pterygotrigla picta Günther, 1880.
  • Latchet, Pterygotrigla polyommata Richardson
    John Richardson (naturalist)
    Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...

    , 1839
    .
  • Pterygotrigla robertsi del Cerro & Lloris, 1997.
  • Pterygotrigla ryukyuensis Matsubara & Hiyama, 1932.
  • Pterygotrigla spirai Golani & Baranes, 1997.
  • Pterygotrigla tagala Herre & Kauffman, 1952.
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