Sea toads
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The sea toads (Chaunacidae) are a family from the order of the armfinches (Lophiiformes). They live in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian Oceans over the continental slopes.
features
The animals have a soft body with small, prickly scales. The big mouth is pointed upwards. The teeth are small. The first ray of the dorsal fin is transformed into an "angel" (Illicium), other hard rays are not available. The anal fin has five to seven soft rays. The small, oval gill openings lie behind the base of the pelvic fin .
Sea toads are colored pink to deep orange-red. The fish are 7 to 40 centimeters long. There are 29 species in two genera . The genus Chaunax lives at depths of 100 to 600 meters. Chaunacops live below 1000 meters.
species
- Genus Chaunacops
Garman , 1899
- Chaunacops coloratus ( Garman , 1899)
- Chaunacops melanostomus ( Caruso , 1989)
- Chaunacops roseus ( Barbour , 1941)
- Chaunacops spinosus Ho & McGrouther , 2015
- Genus Chaunax Lowe , 1846
- Chaunax abei Le Danois , 1978
- Chaunax africanus Ho & Last , 2013
- Chaunax apus Lloyd , 1909
- Chaunax atimovatae Ho & Ma , 2016
- Chaunax brachysomus Ho et al. , 2015
- Chaunax breviradius Le Danois , 1978
- Chaunax endeavouri Whitley , 1929
- Chaunax fimbriatus Hilgendorf , 1879
- Chaunax flammeus Le Danois , 1979
- Chaunax flavomaculatus Ho et al. , 2013
- Chaunax gomoni Ho et al. , 2015
- Chaunax heemstraorum Ho & Ma , 2016
- Chaunax hollemani Ho & Ma , 2016
- Chaunax latipunctatus Le Danois , 1984
- Chaunax mulleus Ho et al. , 2013
- Chaunax multilepis Ho et al. , 2016
- Chaunax nebulosus Ho & Last , 2013
- Chaunax nudiventer Ho & Shao , 2010
- Chaunax penicillatus McCulloch , 1915
- Chaunax pictus Lowe , 1846
- Chaunax reticulatus Ho et al. , 2013
- Chaunax russatus Ho et al. , 2013
- Chaunax stigmaeus Fowler , 1946
- Chaunax suttkusi Caruso , 1989
- Chaunax umbrinus Gilbert , 1905
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World . John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
Web links
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