Chaunax

Chaunax
Chaunax suttkusi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Lophiiformes
Family:Chaunacidae
Genus:Chaunax
R. T. Lowe, 1846
Type species
Chaunax pictus
R. T. Lowe, 1846

Chaunax is a genus of bony fish in the sea toad family Chaunacidae.[1] They are found in tropical and subtropical oceans around the world and most species are found a depths between 180 and 1,100 m (590 and 3,610 ft), but C. endeavouri occurs as shallow as 50 m (160 ft) and C. fimbriatus as deep as 1,985 m (6,512 ft).[2][3] Depending on the exact species involved, they reach a total length of 11–40 cm (4.3–15.7 in).[4]

Species

There are currently 25 recognized species in this genus:[4]

  • Chaunax abei Y. Le Danois, 1978
  • Chaunax africanus H. C. Ho & Last, 2013 (African coffinfish)[5]
  • Chaunax apus Lloyd, 1909[6]
  • Chaunax atimovatae H. C. Ho & W. C. Ma, 2016[7]
  • Chaunax brachysomus H. C. Ho, Kawai & Satria, 2015 (Short-body frogmouth)[6]
  • Chaunax breviradius Y. Le Danois, 1978
  • Chaunax endeavouri Whitley, 1929 (Coffinfish)
  • Chaunax fimbriatus Hilgendorf, 1879 (Tasselled coffinfish)
  • Chaunax flammeus Y. Le Danois, 1979
  • Chaunax flavomaculatus H. C. Ho, C. D. Roberts & A. L. Stewart, 2013 (Yellow-spot frogmouth)[8]
  • Chaunax gomoni H. C. Ho, Kawai & Satria, 2015 (Gomon’s frogmouth)[6]
  • Chaunax heemstraorum H. C. Ho & W. C. Ma, 2016[7]
  • Chaunax hollemani H. C. Ho & W. C. Ma, 2016[7]
  • Chaunax latipunctatus Y. Le Danois, 1984
  • Chaunax mulleus H. C. Ho, C. D. Roberts & A. L. Stewart, 2013 (Red-shoes frogmouth)[8]
  • Chaunax multilepis H. C. Ho, Meleppura & Bineesh, 2016 (Indian spotted coffinfish)[9]
  • Chaunax nebulosus H. C. Ho & Last, 2013 (Eye-spot coffinfish)[5]
  • Chaunax nudiventer H. C. Ho & K. T. Shao, 2010 (Naked-belly coffinfish)
  • Chaunax penicillatus McCulloch, 1915 (Pencil coffinfish)
  • Chaunax pictus R. T. Lowe, 1846 (Pink frogmouth)
  • Chaunax reticulatus H. C. Ho, C. D. Roberts & A. L. Stewart, 2013 (Netted frogmouth)[8]
  • Chaunax russatus H. C. Ho, C. D. Roberts & A. L. Stewart, 2013 (Red coffinfish)[8]
  • Chaunax stigmaeus Fowler, 1946 (Red-eye coffinfish)
  • Chaunax suttkusi J. H. Caruso, 1989
  • Chaunax umbrinus C. H. Gilbert, 1905

References

  1. ↑ Richards, W.J. (2005). Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic, Two Volume Set. CRC Press. p. 1312. ISBN 978-0-8493-1916-7.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Chaunax endeavouri" in FishBase. January 2016 version.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Chaunax fimbriatus" in FishBase. January 2016 version.
  4. 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). Species of Chaunax in FishBase. July 2017 version.
  5. 1 2 Ho, H.-C. & Last, P.R. (2013): Two new species of the coffinfish genus Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from the Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 3710 (5): 436–448.
  6. 1 2 3 Ho, H.-C., Kawai, T. & Satria, F. (2015): Species of the anglerfish genus Chaunax from Indonesia, with descriptions of two new species (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 63: 301–308.
  7. 1 2 3 Ho, H.-C. & Ma, W.-C. (2016): Revision of southern African species of the anglerfish genus Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae), with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa, 4144 (2): 175–194.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Ho, H.-C., Roberts, C.D. & Stewart, A.L. (2013): A review of the anglerfish genus Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from New Zealand and adjacent waters, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa, 3620 (1): 89–111.
  9. ↑ Ho, H.-C., Meleppura, R.K. & Bineesh, K.K. (2016): Chaunax multilepis sp. nov., a new species of Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from the northern Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 4103 (2): 130-136.
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