Bathyphylax

Bathyphylax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Triacanthodidae
Subfamily: Triacanthodinae
Genus: Bathyphylax
Species

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Bathyphylax is a genus of spikefishes native to the deep waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • Bathyphylax bombifrons G. S. Myers, 1934 (Boomer spikefish)
  • Bathyphylax omen J. C. Tyler, 1966
  • Bathyphylax pruvosti Santini, 2006

References

  1. Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. Ichthyological Research, 62 (1): 72-113.


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