Lepidion eques (Günther, 1887)

Carneiro, Miguel, Martins, Rogélia, Landi, Monica & Costa, Filipe O., 2014, Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf, European Journal of Taxonomy 73, pp. 1-73 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2014.73
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9A5F217D-8E7B-448A-9CAB-2CCC9CC6F857
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3869476
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F442953B-2E5E-EF41-FF1B-FC78FEE57A06
treatment provided by	Tatiana
scientific name	Lepidion eques (Günther, 1887)
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Treatment

◇ Lepidion eques (Günther, 1887) View in CoL View at ENA

– North Atlantic codling; ②

Bañón et al. (2012) discovered that the COI DNA sequencing along with morphological and meristic analyses strongly suggest that there are no specific differences between the Atlantic Lepidion eques and the Mediterranean species L. lepidion (Risso, 1810) . Therefore, they proposed L. eques as a junior synonym of L. lepidion .