Batrachoididae is the only family in the ray-finned fish order Batrachoidiformes. Members of this family are usually called toadfish, or "frogfish": both the English common name and scientific name refer to their toad-like appearance.
Batrachoides is a genus of toadfishes.
Cairnsichthys is a genus of rainbowfishes from the subfamily Melanotaeniinae. The genus is endemic to freshwater streams in eastern Queensland in north eastern Australia. The genus was designated as a monotypic genus in 1928 by John T. Nichols and Henry C. Raven but in 2018 a second species was assigned to the genus.
Milyeringa is a genus of blind cavefish from the Cape Range and Barrow Island, northwestern Australia. Although traditionally considered to belong to the family Eleotridae, studies show that they represent a distinct and far-separated lineage together with the Typhleotris cavefish from Madagascar, leading some to move them to their own family, Milyeringidae. The generic name is taken from Milyering which is 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Vlamingh Head in the North West Cape of Western Australia, the type locality for Milyeringa veritas.
The damba is a species of cichlid.
The whitelined toadfish is a species of fish in the family Batrachoididae. It is endemic to Belize. The specific name honours David W. Greenfield and Teresa Arambula Greenfield, who when they collected type specimen thought that it might belong to an undescribed species and so sent it to Bruce Baden Collette to be described.
Belone is a genus of needlefish common in brackish and marine waters. It is one of ten genera in the family Belonidae.
Allenbatrachus is a genus of toadfishes found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. The generic name honours the Humboldt State University ichthyologist George Allen (1923-2011), who introduced David Greenfield, who coined the name, to ichthyology.
Austrobatrachus is a genus of toadfishes found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans off the coast of South Africa.
Perulibatrachus is a genus of toadfishes known from the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
The broadbodied toadfish is a species of toadfish only known from the coasts of South Africa. This species grows to a length of 29 centimetres (11 in) TL. Its binomial name honours two people: the generic name honours Dr. C. Riekert who sent J. L. B. Smith "many specimens", while the specific name honours P. V. Ellis who collected the type specimen.
Vladichthys gloverensis is a species of toadfish known only from the Atlantic Coast of Belize and Honduras, where it is found on reefs. This species grows to a standard length of 5.6 cm (2.2 in). The generic name honours the toadfish expert Vladimir "Vlad" Walters (1927-1987) while the specific name denotes Glover's Reef in Belize.
Colletteichthys dussumieri is a species of toadfish of the family Batrachoididae. The specific name honours the French explorer and trader Jean-Jacques Dussumier (1792-1883) who collected the type specimen.
Bassogigas gillii is a species of cusk-eel found in the Indian, Pacific Ocean, and Atlantic Oceans at depths of from 637 to 2,239 metres.
Rachovia is a genus of killifish from the family Rivulidae the species of which are endemic to the Orinoco, Maracaibo and Magdalena basins in Colombia and Venezuela, where they live in small temporary waters like ponds. They are small annual killifish that reach up to 6 cm (2.4 in) in total length. The name of this genus honours the German aquarist Arthur Rachow (1884-1960) who sent fish specimens to George S. Myers.
Bruce Baden Collette is an American ichthyologist.
Kihnichthys ufermanni, the Usumacinta cichlid, is a species of cichlid found in the Pasión River system, a tributary to the Usumacinta River in Petén, Guatemala. This species is the only known member of its genus, but several of its features, including the chisel-like teeth, are shared with Cincelichthys and whether they should be merged into a single genus is not yet fully resolved.
George Herbert Allen was an American ichthyologist and fisheries scientist. His father was a US Consul and they family moved to Calgary with his father's posting in 1927 and George remained there until he went to the University of Wyoming as an undergraduate where he graduated before entering the military during the Second World War. After the war he completed his Master's degree and Doctorate at the University of Washington in 1956, where he met his wife, Beverly Robinson. He started a position at the Humboldt State University an association which was to last over 30 years, ending his career as a Professor of Fisheries. At HSU he played an important part in setting up the University's Oceanography program and its graduate program in Fisheries. He was awarded the President's Distinguished Service Award by the Humboldt State University and had a lab and part of the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant and Wildlife Sanctuary named in his honor. Allen was nicknamed "Fishy" by the Arcata, California city hall workers he co-operated with in the creation of its pioneering artificial marsh wastewater treatment facility. The toadfish genus Allenbatrachus was named in his honor by one of his former students, David W. Greenfield, for Allen's introduction of Greenfield to ichthyology. He was survived by his wife, Beverley, and their three daughters.
Thalassophryne maculosa, the Cano toadfish, is a species of toadfish which is common along the Caribbean coasts of South America from Colombia to Trinidad and Venezuela. It occurs on the sandy bottoms of reef flats, lagoons, and seaward edges of reefs where it sits partially buried in the substrate. It is a venomous species with the venom being delivered through spines and wounds from the spines have been known to cause severe symptoms of pain and illness that may persist for up to a week. A study of the holotype of Batrachus uranoscopus, said to be a freshwater toadfish from Madagascar, in the Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris found that it was most probably a misslabelled specimen of Thalassophryne maculosa and that subsequent records of Batrachus uranoscopus were attributable to Allenbatrachus meridionalis, a species found in Madagascar. T. maculosa is the type species of the genus Thalassophryne, the generic name translates from Greek as "sea toad" while the specific name is Latin for "spotted".
The toadfish goby is a species of bony fish in the family Gobiidae which is found in areas of sandy substrates among coral reefs. It occurs in the western Atlantic Ocean from the Bahamas south through the Caribbean Sea as well as along the Central and South American coast from Belize to Santa Marta, Colombia. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Cryptopsilotris, although it was formerly classified under Psilotris and its generic name means "hidden Pilotris", meaning that it was hidden within that genus.
