Pink frogmouth
The pink frogmouth or redeye, Chaunax pictus, is a sea toad of the family Chaunacidae, found around the world on continental shelves in tropical and temperate waters, at depths of between 200 and 660 m. Its length is up to 40 cm. It can be distinguish from present species with a black, deeply concave illicial cavity, and an esca that is black anterodosally and pale or white posteroventrally.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lophiiformes |
| Family: | Chaunacidae |
| Genus: | Chaunax |
| Species: | C. pictus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chaunax pictus R. T. Lowe, 1846 | |
References
- Arnold, R. (2015). "Chaunax pictus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T190064A21910135. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T190064A21910135.en. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Chaunax pictus" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
- Caruso, John H. “Systematics and Distribution of the Atlantic Chaunacid Anglerfishes (Pisces: Lophiiformes).” Copeia, vol. 1989, no. 1, 1989, pp. 153–165. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1445616. Accessed 6 Mar. 2020.
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