Chilomycterus

Genus of fishes

Burrfishes
Chilomycterus schoepfii
Chilomycterus antillarum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Diodontidae
Genus: Chilomycterus
Brisout de Barneville, 1846
Type species
Diodon reticulatus
Brisout de Barneville, 1846
Synonyms

Atinga Le Danois, 1954
Chilomyctere Bibron, 1855
Cyanichthys Kaup, 1855
Lyosphaera Evermann & Kendall, 1898 (uncertainly a synonym of this genus)

Chilomycterus is a genus of diodontid tetraodontiform fishes commonly called "burrfish."

Species

There 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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). "Chilomycterus mauretanicus". FishBase.
Taxon identifiers
Chilomycterus


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