Cookeolus
Genus of fishes
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Cookeolus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes from the family Priacanthidae, the bigeyes. It contains one extant species and one extinct species.
| Cookeolus | |
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| Cookeolus japonicus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Priacanthidae |
| Genus: | Cookeolus Fowler, 1928[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cookeolus japonicus | |
Species
The following species are classified within the genus Cookeolus:
- Cookeolus japonicus (Cuvier, 1829) – Longfinned bullseye[2]
- †Cookeolus spinolacrymatus Kon & Yoshino, 1997 [3]
† means extinct.
