Lophiodes
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| Lophiodes | |
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| Lophiodes mutilus | |
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| Lophiodes miacanthus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lophiiformes |
| Family: | Lophiidae |
| Genus: | Lophiodes Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 |
| Type species | |
| Lophius mutilus | |
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Lophiodes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Lophiidae, the goosefishes, monkfishes and anglers. It is one of four extant genera in the family Lophiidae. The fish in this genus are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Lophiodes was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1896 by the American ichthyologists George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean with Lophius mutilis, a species described in 1894 by the English physician, naturalist and carcinologist Alfred William Alcock with its type locality given as the Bay of Bengal, as its only species.[1][2] The genus Lophiodes is one of 4 extant genera in the family Lophiidae which the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies in the monotypic suborder Lophioidei with the order Lophiiformes.[3] Within the Lophiidae, Lophiodes is the sister taxon to Lophius and Lophiomus with Sladenia as the most basal sister group to the other three genera.[4]
Etymology
Lophiodes means "having the form of Lophius," the type genus of the Lophiidae. Lophius means "mane" and is presumably a reference to the first three spines of the first dorsal fin which are tentacle like, with three smaller spines behind them.[5]
Species
There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:[6]
- Lophiodes beroe J. H. Caruso, 1981 (White goosefish)
- Lophiodes bruchius J. H. Caruso, 1981
- Lophiodes caulinaris (Garman, 1899) (Spottedtail angler)
- Lophiodes endoi H. C. Ho & K. T. Shao, 2008 [7]
- Lophiodes fimbriatus Saruwatari & Mochizuki, 1985
- Lophiodes gracilimanus (Alcock, 1899)
- Lophiodes insidiator (Regan, 1921) (Natal angler)
- Lophiodes iwamotoi H. C. Ho, Séret & K. T. Shao, 2011 (Long-spine angler) [8]
- Lophiodes kempi (Norman, 1935) (Longspine African angler)
- Lophiodes lugubris (Alcock, 1894)
- Lophiodes maculatus H. C. Ho, Séret & K. T. Shao, 2011 (Spotted angler) [8]
- Lophiodes miacanthus (C. H. Gilbert, 1905)
- Lophiodes monodi Y. Le Danois, 1971 (Club-bait goosefish)
- Lophiodes mutilus (Alcock, 1894) (Smooth angler)
- Lophiodes naresi (Günther, 1880) (Goosefish)
- Lophiodes reticulatus J. H. Caruso & Suttkus, 1979 (Reticulated goosefish)
- Lophiodes spilurus (Garman, 1899) (Threadfin angler)
- Lophiodes triradiatus (R. E. Lloyd, 1909) (Shortspine goosefish) [9]
