Sladenia gardineri
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| Sladenia gardineri | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lophiiformes |
| Family: | Lophiidae |
| Genus: | Sladenia |
| Species: | S. gardineri |
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| Sladenia gardineri Regan, 1908 | |
Sladenia gardineri, the Indian round angler, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lophiidae, the goose fishes, monkfishes or anglers. This species is found in the Indo-Pacific.
Sladenia gardineri was first formally described in 1908 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan with its type locality given as Salomon Atoll in the Chagos Archipelago of the Indian Ocean.[2] When Regan described this species he classified it in a new genus Sladenia of which it was the only species, meaning that this species is the type species of Sladenia by monotypy.[3] The genus Sladenia 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 within the order Lophiiformes.[4]
Etymology
Sladenia gardineri has the genus name Sladenia which honours Percy Sladen, the British echinoderm biologist. The holotype of S. gardineri was collected during an expedition funded by his memorial trust. The specific name gardineri honours John Stanley Gardiner, the British zoologist who collected the holotype.[5]