Chilomycterus
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| Chilomycterus | |
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| Striped Burrfish (C. schoepfi) | |
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| C. geometricus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Diodontidae |
| Genus: | Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville, 1846 |
| Type species | |
| Diodon reticulatus Brisout de Barneville, 1846 | |
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Chilomycterus is a genus of porcupinefishes.
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Chilomycterus antennatus (G. Cuvier, 1816) (Bridled burrfish)
- Chilomycterus antillarum D. S. Jordan & Rutter, 1897 (Web burrfish)
- Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Spotfin burrfish)
- Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) (Striped burrfish)
- Chilomycterus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Chilomycterus spinosus mauretanicus (Y. Le Danois, 1954) (Guinean burrfish)
- Chilomycterus spinosus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Chilomycterus in FishBase. October 2012 version.
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