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Pegasus (fish)

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Pegasus is a genus of seamoths found in coastal tropical marine waters. The name was taken from the winged horse Pegasus in Greek mythology. This horse was created with Medusa´s blood.^[1] The member species are distributed in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean waters around: Australia, Bahrain, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Tanzania and Thailand.^[1]

There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:

Pegasus lancifer Kaup, 1861 (Sculptured seamoth)
Pegasus laternarius G. Cuvier, 1816 (Brick seamoth)
Pegasus volitans Linnaeus, 1758 (Long-tail seamoth)
Pegasus tetrabelos Osterhage, Pogonoski, Appleyard & W. T. White, 2016 (Short-spined seamoth) ^[2]
Pegasus sinensis Ying-Yi Zhang, Rong-Rong Zhang, Shao-Bo Ma, Shuai-Shuai Liu, Qiang Lin and Xin Wang], 2022 (Chinese seamoth)^[3]

^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2016). "Pegasidae" in FishBase. January 2016 version.
^ .Osterhage, D., Pogonoski, J.J., Appleyard, S.A. & White, W.T. (2016): Integrated Taxonomy Reveals Hidden Diversity in Northern Australian Fishes: A New Species of Seamoth (Genus Pegasus). PLoS ONE, 11 (3): e0149415.
^ Zhang Y, Zhang R, Ma S, Liu S, Lin Q, Wang X (18 July 2022). "A new seamoth species of Pegasus (Syngnathiformes: Pegasidae) from the East China Sea". Zoological Research. 43 (4): 675–678. doi:10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2022.109. PMC 9336449. PMID 35791615. Retrieved 7 August 2022.

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Pegasus is a genus of seamoths found in coastal tropical marine waters. The name was taken from the winged horse Pegasus in Greek mythology. This horse was created with Medusa´s blood. The member species are distributed in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean waters around: Australia, Bahrain, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Tanzania and Thailand.