Lophiodes mutilus
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| Lophiodes mutilus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lophiiformes |
| Family: | Lophiidae |
| Genus: | Lophiodes |
| Species: | L. mutilus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lophiodes mutilus (Alcock, 1894) | |
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Lophiodes mutilus, the smooth angler or smooth monkfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lophiidae, the goosefishes, monkfishes and anglers. This species is found in the Indo-Pacific.
Lophiodes mutilus was first formally described as Lophius mutilus in 1894 by the English physician, naturalist, and carcinologist Alfred William Alcock with its type locality given as the Bay of Bengal in eastern India.[3] In 1896 George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean reclassified Lophius mutilis in the new monospecific genus Lophiodes, meaning that this species is the type species of that genus by monotypy.[4] 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.[5]
Etymology
Lophiodes mutilus has the genus name Lophiodes which means "having the form of Lophius, the type genus of the Lophiidae. Lophius means "mane" and is presumably a reference to the first 3spines of the first dorsal fin which are tentacle like, with 3 smaller spines behind them. The specific name, mutilus, means "maimed", "cut off" or "cut short", was not explained by Alcock but may refer to the second spint [[dorsal fin[]] being "rudimentary".[6]