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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 ...
Chaunax endeavouri Whitley, 1929 (Furry coffinfish) Chaunax erythraeus H.-C. Ho & W. C. Ma, 2022 (Red eyebrow frogmouth) Chaunax fimbriatus Hilgendorf , 1879 (Tasselled coffinfish)
NOAA's Okeanos Explorer team recently spotted a strange fish with legs during its deep sea mission. Known generally as a frog fish and specifically as a Chaunax, the underwater creature has ...
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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]
Tales of furry fish date to the 17th-century and later the "shaggy trout" of Iceland. The earliest known American publication dates from a 1929 Montana Wildlife magazine article by J.H. Hicken. A taxidermy furry trout produced by Ross C. Jobe is a specimen at the Royal Museum of Scotland; it is a trout with white rabbit fur "ingeniously" attached.