Psychrolutes

Psychrolutes phrictus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cottales

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Eupercaria Ordo: Perciformes Subordo: Cottoidei Infraordo: Cottales

Familia: Psychrolutidae
Genus: Psychrolutes
Species: P. inermis – P. macrocephalus – P. marcidus – P. marmoratus – P. microporos – P. occidentalis – P. paradoxus – P. phrictus – P. sigalutes – P. sio – P. subspinosus

Name

• Psychrolutes Günther, 1861: 516
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Psychrolutes paradoxus Günther, 1861
    • Type by monotypy

Synonymy

• Cottunculoides Barnard, 1927

References

• Günther, A. 1861: Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. 3 : i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. BHL

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Psychrolutes species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Psychrolutes and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Vernacular names

English: Blobfish

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