Trachinocephalus gauguini

Taxonavigation: Synodontoidei
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 Section: Aulopa Ordo: Aulopiformes Subordo: Synodontoidei

Familia: Synodontidae
Genus: Trachinocephalus
Species: Trachinocephalus gauguini

Name

Trachinocephalus gauguini Polanco F. et al., 2016

Holotype: MNHN 2000-4531.
Paratypes: USNM 409221, 409222; MNHN 2014-2931 (2), 2003-0590, 2000-4494 (8), 2003-1272 (2), 2003-596 (3).

Type locality: Marquesas Islands, Hiva Oa Island, 9°41′S; 139°3′ W, 95–305 m depth (26–75 m depth).

Etymology: named after the French painter Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), who died in the Marquesas Islands on 8 May 1903.

Polanco F., A., Acero P., A. & Betancur-R., R. 2016. No longer a circumtropical species: revision of the lizardfishes in the Trachinocephalus myops species complex, with description of a new species from the Marquesas Islands. Journal of Fish Biology, 89(2): 1302–1323. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13038 Reference page.
Wang, S-Y., Chen, J-N., Russell, B.C. & Chen, W-J. 2018. First record of Gauguin's blunt-nose lizardfish, Trachinocephalus gauguini Polanco, Acero & Betancur 2016 (Teleostei: Synodontidae) outside the Marquesas Archipelago. Pp 151–156 In Page, L.M., Chen, W-J. & Ciccotto, P.J. (eds.) Papers on fishes of Asia, including those presented at international conferences of the Asian Society of Ichthyologists in Taipei, Taiwan in 2016, and in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2017. Zootaxa 4476(1): 1–181. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4476.1.1 Reference page. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4476.1.14 full article pdf Reference page.