Leiognathidae

Pope's ponyfish

Equulites popei

Leiognathid Fish from Indo West Pacific

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• East Asia
• Southeast Asia
• West Asia
• Fusiform
• Compressed cross-section
• Small
• Tropical fish

Equulites popei, Pope's ponyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a ponyfish from the family Leiognathidae. It has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution which extends from the Red Sea east to the western Pacific Ocean. It has entered the Mediterranean as a Lessepsian migrant.