Colletteichthys

Colletteichthys is a genus of toadfishes found in the western Indian Ocean. The generic name is a compound of the surname Collette, in honour of the American ichthyologist Bruce Baden Collette to recognise his contribution to the study of toadfish, and the Greek ichthys meaning "fish".[2]

Colletteichthys
Colletteichthys dussumieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Batrachoidiformes
Family: Batrachoididae
Subfamily: Halophryninae
Genus: Colletteichthys
D. W. Greenfield, 2006
Type species
Batrachus dussumieri
Valenciennes, 1837[1]

Species

The recognized species in this genus are:[3][4]

  • Colletteichthys dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1837) (flat toadfish)
  • Colletteichthys flavipinnis D. W. Greenfield, Bineesh & Akhilesh, 2012[4]
  • Colletteichthys occidentalis D. W. Greenfield, 2012 (Arabian toadfish)

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Colletteichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (26 July 2017). "Order BATRACHOIDIFORMES (Toadfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Colletteichthys in FishBase. April 2012 version.
  4. Greenfield, D.W.; Bineesh, K.K. & Akhilesh, K.V. (2012). "Colletteichthys flavipinnis, a new toadfish species from Sri Lanka and India (Teleostei: Batrachoididae)". Zootaxa. 3437: 24–31. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3437.1.2.


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