Dark toadfish
Appearance
Dark toadfish | |
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A dark toadfish observed near Stewart Island | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
Family: | Psychrolutidae |
Genus: | Neophrynichthys |
Species: | N. latus
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Binomial name | |
Neophrynichthys latus (F. W. Hutton, 1875)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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The dark toadfish (Neophrynichthys latus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. This fish is found on the continental shelf around New Zealand.
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Neophrynichthys latus". FishBase. February 2023 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