Lopholatilus

Lopholatilus Temporal range: Middle Miocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Great northern tilefish (L. chamaeleonticeps)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acanthuriformes
Family:	Malacanthidae
Subfamily:	Latilinae
Genus:	Lopholatilus Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879
Type species
Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879 [1]

Lopholatilus is a small genus of large-sized tilefishes native to the western Atlantic Ocean. ^[2]

Species

There are currently two recognized extant species in this genus: ^[2]

• Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879 (Great northern tilefish)
• Lopholatilus villarii A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915 (Tile fish)

There are also two extinct species: ^[3]

• † Lopholatilus ereborensis Carnevale & Godfrey, 2014 (Middle Miocene of Maryland & Virginia, US)
• † Lopholatilus rayus Purdy et al., 2001 (Early Pliocene of North Carolina, US) ^[4]

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Malacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 11 March 2021.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lopholatilus". FishBase . December 2013 version.
3. Carnevale, Giorgio; Godfrey, Stephen J. (9 September 2014). "Tilefish (Teleostei, Malacanthidae) remains from the Miocene Calvert Formation, Maryland and Virginia: taxonomical and paleoecological remarks". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 34 (5): 1018–1032. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.845202.
4. Purdy, Robert W.; Schneider, Vincent P.; Applegate, Shelton P.; McLellan, Jack H.; Meyer, Robert L.; Slaughter, Bob H. (2001). "The Neogene Sharks, Rays, and Bony Fishes from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina". Biodiversity Heritage Library. Retrieved 2025-09-02.