Biology:Lopholatilus
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Lopholatilus | |
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| Great Northern Tilefish (L. chamaeleonticeps) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Malacanthidae |
| Subfamily: | Latilinae |
| Genus: | Lopholatilus Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879 |
| Type species | |
| Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879[1]
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Lopholatilus is a small genus of tilefishes native to the western Atlantic Ocean.[2]
Species
There are currently two recognized extant species in this genus:[2]
- Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879 (Great northern tilefish)
- Lopholatilus villarii A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915 (Tile fish)
There is also an extinct species:[3]
- †Lopholatilus ereborensis Carnevale & Godfrey, 2014
References
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Malacanthidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Malacanthidae.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Lopholatilus in FishBase. December 2013 version.
- ↑ Carnevale, Giorgio; Godfrey, Stephen J. (9 September 2014). "Tilefish (Teleostei, Malacanthidae) remains from the Miocene Calvert Formation, Maryland and Virginia: taxonomical and paleoecological remarks". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 (5): 1018–1032. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.845202.
Wikidata ☰ Q2534510 entry
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