Bodianus vulpinus, the western pigfish, is a species of wrasse native to tropical and warm temperate waters of the Pacific Ocean, namely Western Australia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Bodianus |
| Species: | B. vulpinus
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| Binomial name | |
| Bodianus vulpinus (Richardson, 1850)
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Cossyphus vulpinus Richardson, 1850 | |
Taxonomy edit
Bodianus vulpinus is placed within in the subgenus Verreo in Bodianus. The record of B. vulpinus from the Hawaiian Islands by some authors was eventually recognized as a distinct species, Bodianus bathycapros.[3][4]
References edit
- ^ Russell, B. (2010). "Bodianus vulpinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T187553A8566575. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T187553A8566575.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Bodianus vulpinus" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ Martin F. Gomon (2001) Descriptions of two new species of Bodianus (Perciformes: Labridae) from Australasian waters, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 28:4, 407-416, DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2001.9518279
- ^ Gomon, Martin F. "A revision of the labrid fish genus Bodianus with descriptions of eight new species." Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 30 (2006): 1-133.
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