Cetomimus

Cetomimus
C. gillii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Beryciformes
Family:	Cetomimidae
Genus:	Cetomimus Goode & T. H. Bean, 1895

Cetomimus is a genus of flabby whalefishes.

Species

There are currently seven recognized species in this genus: ^[1]

• Cetomimus compunctus T. Abe, Marumo & Kawaguchi, 1965
• Cetomimus craneae Harry, 1952
• Cetomimus gillii Goode & T. H. Bean, 1895
• Cetomimus hempeli Maul, 1969
• Cetomimus kerdops A. E. Parr, 1934
• Cetomimus paxtoni Kobyliansky, Gordeeva & Mishin 2023 ^[2]
• Cetomimus picklei (Gilchrist, 1922)
• Cetomimus teevani Harry, 1952

See also

Video of a whalefish from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. ^[3]

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cetomimus". FishBase . August 2012 version.
2. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family CETOMIMIDAE Goode & Bean 1895 (Whalefishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 October 2025.
3. Whalefish, Cetomimus sp. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). 2017-03-30.