Monacanthus tuckeri

Monacanthus tuckeri

Taxonavigation: Tetraodontiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Eupercaria Ordo: Tetraodontiformes

Familia: Monacanthidae
Genus: Monacanthus
Species: Monacanthus tuckeri

Name

Monacanthus tuckeri Bean, 1906

• Lectotype: FMNH 5183.
• Paralectotypes: FMNH 5184 (1), 5186 (1).

Type locality: The Flatts, Bermuda.

References

• Allen, J.J., Akkaynak, D., Sugden, A.U. & Hanlon, R.T., 2015: Adaptive body patterning, three-dimensional skin morphology and camouflage measures of the slender filefish Monacanthus tuckeri on a Caribbean coral reef. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, DOI: 10.1111/bij.12598

Reference page. 

• Bean, T. H., 1906: Descriptions of new Bermudan fishes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 19: 29–33. BHL