toothpony
Gazza minuta (Bloch, 1795)
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Gazza minuta
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Open encyclopedia reference
Gazza minuta, the toothpony or toothed ponyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a ponyfish from the family Leiognathidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea and the east African coast east through the Indian and Pacific Oceans to Australia and Tahiti north as far as the Ryukyu Islands. It occurs over sandy and silty bottoms, although the young prefer mangroves and silty reefs. it feeds using its protruding pipette-like mouth or using the gill rakers as seives. Its food consists of smaller fishes, crustaceans and polychaetes.
Wikipedia contributors, Gazza minuta; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T02:37:25.872979+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Gazza minuta (Bloch, 1795)
- Name authority
- (Bloch, 1795)
- Common name
- toothpony
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Leiognathidae
- Genus
- Gazza
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderAcanthuriformes
- familyLeiognathidae Gill, 1893
- genusGazza Rüppell, 1835
- speciesGazza minuta (Bloch, 1795)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Gazza. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Gazza achlamys Jordan & Starks, 1917 | LeiognathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gazza dentex (Valenciennes, 1835) | LeiognathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gazza squamiventralis Yamashita & Kimura, 2001 | LeiognathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gazza rhombea Kimura, Yamashita & Iwatsuki, 2000 | LeiognathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Gaza minuta (Bloch, 1795) (Bloch, 1795) | synonym |
| Scomber minutus Bloch, 1795 Bloch, 1795 | synonym |
| Zeus argentarius Forster, 1801 Forster, 1801 | synonym |
| Gazza argentaria (Forster, 1801) (Forster, 1801) | synonym |
| Gazza equulaeformis Rüppell, 1835 Rüppell, 1835 | synonym |
| Gazza equulasformis Rüppell, 1835 Rüppell, 1835 | synonym |
| Gazza equuleformis Rüppell, 1835 Rüppell, 1835 | synonym |
| Gazza tapeinosoma Bleeker, 1853 Bleeker, 1853 | synonym |
| Equula dispar De Vis, 1884 De Vis, 1884 | synonym |
| Equula minuta (Bloch, 1795) (Bloch, 1795) | synonym |
| Gazza minuata (Bloch, 1795) (Bloch, 1795) | synonym |
| Gazza dispar (De Vis, 1884) (De Vis, 1884) | synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218451 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:3FG4H. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.