Chaunax

Chaunax pictus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chaunacioidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Eupercaria Ordo: Lophiiformes Subordo: Ogcocephalioidei Superfamilia: Chaunacioidea

Familia: Chaunacidae
Genus: Chaunax
Species (25): C. abei – C. albatrossae – C. africanus – C. apus – C. atimovatae – C. brachysomus – C. breviradius – C. endeavouri – C. erytherus – C. fimbriatus – C. flammeus – C. flavomaculatus – C. gomoni – C. heemstraorum – C. hollemani – C. latipunctatus – C. mulleus – C. multilepis – C. nebulosus – C. nudiventer – C. obscurus – C. penicillatus – C. pictus – C. reticulatus – C. russatus – C. stigmaeus – C. suttkusi – C. umbrinus – C. viridiretis

Name

Chaunax Lowe, 1846

Gender: masculine

Type species: Chaunax pictus Lowe, 1846

• Fixation: monotypy

References

Primary references

• Lowe, R.T. 1846. On a new genus of the family Lophidae (les pectorales pediculées, Cuv.) discovered in Madeira. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London 1846(pt 14): 81–83.

Additional references

• Ho, H.-C. & Last, P.R. 2013. Two new species of the coffinfish genus Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from the Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 3710(5): 436–448. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3710.5.3 Reference page. 
• Ho, H-C. & Ma, W-C. 2016. Revision of southern African species of the anglerfish genus Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae), with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 4144(2): 175–194. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.2.2. Reference page. 
• Ho, H.-C., Roberts, C.D. & Stewart, A.L. 2013. A review of the anglerfish genus Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from New Zealand and adjacent waters, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 3620(1): 89–111. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.1.4 Reference page. 
• Ho, H-C., Meleppura, R.K. & Bineesh, K.K. 2016. Chaunax multilepis sp. nov., a new species of Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from the northern Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 4103(2): 130–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.3 Reference page. 

Links

• Chaunax and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2026. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Chaunax species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2026. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Chaunax – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

• 中文: 單棘躄魚屬

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