Grammatonotus

Grammatonotus is a genus of fish in the family Callanthiidae native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean. These fish are ovoid to elongated in shape, with short, rounded snouts. The anterior nostril is tubular. They have large teeth with one to two canine teeth on each side. The scales are large.[1]

Grammatonotus
Grammatonotus surugaensis
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Grammatonotus

Type species
Grammatonotus laysanus
C. H. Gilbert, 1905

Species

There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • Grammatonotus ambiortus Prokofiev, 2006
  • Grammatonotus brianne W. D. Anderson, Greene & L. A. Rocha, 2016 (Batangas groppo)[3]
  • Grammatonotus crosnieri (Fourmanoir, 1981) (Crosnier's groppo)
  • Grammatonotus lanceolatus (Kotthaus, 1976)
  • Grammatonotus laysanus C. H. Gilbert, 1905
  • Grammatonotus macrophthalmus Katayama, Yamamoto & Yamakawa, 1982
  • Grammatonotus roseus (Günther, 1880) (Rosy groppo)[3]
  • Grammatonotus surugaensis Katayama, Yamakawa & K. Suzuki, 1980

References

  1. Katayama, M., et al. (1982). A review of the serratiid fish genus Grammatonotus, with description of a new species. Archived 2014-10-18 at the Wayback Machine Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 28(4) 368-74
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Grammatonotus in FishBase. June 2016 version.
  3. Anderson, W.D.Jr., Greene, B.D. & Rocha, L.A. (2016): Grammatonotus brianne, a new callanthiid fish from Philippine waters, with short accounts of two other Grammatonotus from the Coral Triangle. Zootaxa, 4173 (3): 289–295.


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