Chilomycterus
| Burrfishes Temporal range:
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| File:Striped burrfish (Chilomycterus schoepfi).jpg | |
| Chilomycterus schoepfii | |
| File:Chilomycterus geometricus illustration.png | |
| Chilomycterus antillarum | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Diodontidae |
| Genus: | Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville, 1846 |
| Type species | |
| Diodon atringa Brisout de Barneville, 1846
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| Synonyms | |
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Atinga Le Danois, 1954 | |
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Chilomycterus is a genus of diodontid tetraodontiform fishes commonly called "burrfish."
Distribution
[edit | edit source]A majority of Chilomycterus species are found in the Atlantic Ocean, and primarily in the western Atlantic. Only one species, C. reticulatus, is also found in the Indo-Pacific region. The western Atlantic appears to have always been a region of diversity for the genus, as a majority of fossil species have been found there. Only a single indeterminate fossil assigned to this genus is known from the Pacific coast of Panama.[1]
Species
[edit | edit source]There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Chilomycterus antennatus (G. Cuvier, 1816) (bridled burrfish)
- Chilomycterus antillarum D. S. Jordan & Rutter, 1897 (web burrfish)
- Chilomycterus mauretanicus (Y. Le Danois, 1954) (Guinean burrfish)[3]
- Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (spotfin burrfish)
- Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) (striped burrfish)
- Chilomycterus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Fossil species
[edit | edit source]The following fossil species are known:[1]
- †Chilomycterus circumflexus (Leriche, 1942) (Middle to Late Miocene of Cuba and Florida & North Carolina, US) (=Diodon circumflexus Leriche, 1942)
- †Chilomycterus dzonotensis Cantalice et al., 2025 (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Mexico)[4]
- †Chilomycterus exspectatus Aguilera et al, 2017 (Late Miocene of Panama)[1]
- †Chilomycterus ferreirai (Santos & Travassos 1960) (Early Miocene of Brazil & Venezuela)
- †Chilomycterus gatunensis (Toula, 1909) (Late Miocene of Panama)
- †Chilomycterus kugleri (Casier, 1958) (Late Miocene of Trinidad)
- †Chilomycterus tyleri Aguilera et al, 2017 (Late Miocene of Panama)[1]
- †Chilomycterus vetus (Leidy, 1877) (Middle Miocene of Trinidad, Late Miocene of Florida, US)
The former species C. acanthodes from the Miocene of Italy is now placed in Oligodiodon.[5][6]
References
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- ^ Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. Ichthyological Research, 62 (1): 72-113.
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