Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Chaunacioidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Chaunacidae
Genus: Chaunax
Species (25):
C. abei –
C. albatrossae –
C. africanus –
C. apus –
C. atimovatae –
C. brachysomus –
C. breviradius –
C. endeavouri –
C. erytherus –
C. fimbriatus –
C. flammeus –
C. flavomaculatus –
C. gomoni –
C. heemstraorum –
C. hollemani –
C. latipunctatus –
C. mulleus –
C. multilepis –
C. nebulosus –
C. nudiventer –
C. obscurus –
C. penicillatus –
C. pictus –
C. reticulatus –
C. russatus –
C. stigmaeus –
C. suttkusi –
C. umbrinus –
C. viridiretis
Name
Chaunax Lowe, 1846
Gender: masculine
Type species: Chaunax pictus Lowe, 1846
- Fixation: monotypy
References
Primary references
- 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.3 Reference page.
- Lowe, R.T. 1846. On a new genus of the family Lophidae (les pectorales pediculées, Cuv.) discovered in Madeira. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London 1846(pt 14): 81–83.
Additional references
- 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3710.5.3 Reference page.
- 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.2.2. Reference page.
- 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.1.4 Reference page.
Links
- Chaunax and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
- Chaunax species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 06/2022. - Chaunax – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Vernacular names
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