Chilomycterus

Burrfishes
	Chilomycterus schoepfii
	Chilomycterus antillarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Diodontidae
Genus:	Chilomycterus; Brisout de Barneville, 1846
Type species
	Diodon reticulatus; Brisout de Barneville, 1846
Synonyms
	Atinga Le Danois, 1954; Chilomyctere Bibron, 1855; Cyanichthys Kaup, 1855; Lyosphaera Evermann & Kendall, 1898 (uncertainly a synonym of this genus)

Chilomycterus is a genus of diodontid tetraodontiform fishes commonly called "burrfish."

Species

There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:[1]

Chilomycterus antennatus (G. Cuvier, 1816) (Bridled burrfish)
Chilomycterus antillarum D. S. Jordan & Rutter, 1897 (Web burrfish)
Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Spotfin burrfish)
Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) (Striped burrfish)
Chilomycterus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- C. s. mauretanicus (Y. Le Danois, 1954) (Guinean burrfish)
- C. s. spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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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