Lopholatilus
Appearance
Lopholatilus | |
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Great Northern Tilefish (L. chamaeleonticeps) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Acanthuriformes |
Family: | Malacanthidae |
Subfamily: | Latilinae |
Genus: | Lopholatilus Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879 |
Type species | |
Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879[1]
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Lopholatilus is a small genus of tilefishes native to the western Atlantic Ocean.[2]
Species
[edit]There are currently two recognized extant species in this genus:[2]
- Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879 (Great northern tilefish)
- Lopholatilus villarii A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915 (Tile fish)
There is also an extinct species:[3]
- †Lopholatilus ereborensis Carnevale & Godfrey, 2014
References
[edit]- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Malacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lopholatilus". FishBase. December 2013 version.
- ^ Carnevale, Giorgio; Godfrey, Stephen J. (9 September 2014). "Tilefish (Teleostei, Malacanthidae) remains from the Miocene Calvert Formation, Maryland and Virginia: taxonomical and paleoecological remarks". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (5): 1018–1032. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.845202.