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Chaunax sea toads have a rotund, slightly laterally flattened body which tapers to a small rounded caudal fin.The head is large and globelike with a large oblique mouth and eyes set high on the head.
The furry coffinfish is a benthic fish, it is found on muddy bottom of the ocean, Australian continental shelf and upper slope in the deep ocean, usually 200m–2500m. [7] The Indian Ocean also has two different types of coffinfish residing in its deep waters: Chaunax nebulosus and Chaunax africanus. They differ in color due to different ...
The sea toads were first proposed as a separate family, the Chaunacidae, by the American biologist Theodore Gill in 1863. [5] Charles Tate Regan placed this family within the division Antennariformes within his suborder Lophiodea when he classified the order Pediculati, his grouping of the toadfishes and anglerfishes. [6]
Chaunacops was first proposed as a genus in 1899 by the American ichthyologist Samuel Garman when he described Chaunacops coloratus as a new species. [1] C. coloratus was described from the "Pacific over Cocos Ridge" at 5°43'N, 85°50'W, named as Albatross station 3363 at a depth of 978 fathoms (1,789 m). [2]
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De Beaufort's flathead is a medium-sized fish which grows up to 50 cm (19.7 in), but the average size mostly observed is 35 cm (13.8 in). [2] The body is elongated and the head is particular because of its flat appearance like a duck bill.
Ostraciidae or Ostraciontidae is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes. Fish in the family are known variously as boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes and trunkfishes. It contains about 23 extant species in 6 extant genera.
The schooling bannerfish is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of 18–21 cm. [2] [3] Its body is compressed laterally, and the first rays of its dorsal fin stretch in a long white filament. Its background color is white with two large black diagonal bands. Beyond the second black stripe, the dorsal, caudal fins and pectoral fins are ...