Triacanthodes
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| Triacanthodes | |
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| Triacanthodes anomalus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Triacanthodidae |
| Subfamily: | Triacanthodinae |
| Genus: | Triacanthodes Bleeker, 1857 |
| Type species | |
| Triacanthus anomalus | |
Triacanthodes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Triacanthodidae, the spikefishes. These fishes are found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Triacanthodes was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1857 by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker, with Triacanthus anomalus designated as its type species.[1] T. anomalus was first formally described in 1850 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Hermann Schlegel, who gave its type locality as the entrance to Ōmura Bay in Nagasaki, Japan.[2] It is the type genus of the subfamily Triacanthodinae and of the family Triacanthodidae. The subfamily Triacanthodinae was proposed in 1968 by James C. Tyler.[3] The fifth edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family Triacanthodidae in the suborder Triacanthoidei in the order Tetraodontiformes.[4]
Etymology
Triacanthodes suffixes -odes, meaning "having the form of", onto Triacanthus, as it was thought that this genus was closely related to Triacanthus.[5]
Species
Triacanthodes currently includes 4 recognised species:[6][7]
- Triacanthodes anomalus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) (red spikefish)
- Triacanthodes ethiops Alcock, 1894 (shortsnout spikefish)
- Triacanthodes indicus Matsuura, 1982
- Triacanthodes intermedius Matsuura & Fourmanoir, 1984