Chilomycterus is a genus of diodontid tetraodontiform fishes commonly called "burrfish."
Burrfishes | |
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Chilomycterus schoepfii | |
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Chilomycterus antillarum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
Family: | Diodontidae |
Genus: | Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville, 1846 |
Type species | |
Diodon atringa Brisout de Barneville, 1846
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Synonyms | |
Atinga Le Danois, 1954 |
Species
editThere are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Chilomycterus antennatus (G. Cuvier, 1816) (bridled burrfish)
- Chilomycterus antillarum D. S. Jordan & Rutter, 1897 (web burrfish)
- Chilomycterus mauretanicus (Y. Le Danois, 1954) (Guinean burrfish)[2]
- Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (spotfin burrfish)
- Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) (striped burrfish)
- Chilomycterus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). "Chilomycterus mauretanicus". FishBase.