Frilled toadfish

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Frilled toadfish
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Cottoidei
Family: Psychrolutidae
Genus: Ambophthalmos
Species:
A. magnicirrus
Binomial name
Ambophthalmos magnicirrus
(J. S. Nelson, 1977)
Synonyms [1]

Neophrynichthys magnicirrusJ. S. Nelson, 1977

The frilled toadfish [2] (Ambophthalmos magnicirrus, previously classified as Neophrynichthys magnicirrus [3] ) is a fathead sculpin of the family Psychrolutidae, found on the continental shelf around Australia's Macquarie Island. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ambophthalmos magnicirrus". FishBase . February 2023 version.
  2. 1 2 Dianne J. Bray. "Ambophthalmos magnicirrus". Fishes of Australia. Museums Victoria. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  3. ↑ Keith L. Jackson and Joseph S. Nelson, Ambophthalmos, a new genus for "Neophrynichthys" angustus and "Neophrynichthys" magnicirrus, and the systematic interrelationships of the fathead sculpins (Cottoidei, Psychrolutidae), Can. J. Zool. 76(7): 1344–1357 (1998), doi : 10.1139/cjz-76-7-1344.
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