Smallscaled gurnards
Smallscaled gurnards (Chelidonichthys) is a fish genus in the family Triglidae.
| Smallscaled gurnards | |
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| Red gurnard, (C. spinosus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Triglidae |
| Genus: | Chelidonichthys Kaup, 1873 |
| Type species | |
| Trigla hirundo (jr. synonym of T. lucerna) Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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Species
There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Chelidonichthys capensis (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Cape gurnard)
- Chelidonichthys cuculus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Red gurnard)
- Chelidonichthys gabonensis (Poll & C. Roux, 1955) (Gabon gurnard)
- Chelidonichthys ischyrus D. S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1914
- Chelidonichthys kumu (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Bluefin gurnard)
- Chelidonichthys lucernus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Tub gurnard)
- Chelidonichthys obscurus (Walbaum, 1792) (Longfin gurnard)
- Chelidonichthys queketti (Regan, 1904) (Lesser gurnard)
- Chelidonichthys spinosus (McClelland, 1844) (Spiny red gurnard)
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Chelidonichthys in FishBase. December 2012 version.
External links
Data related to Chelidonichthys at Wikispecies
Media related to Chelidonichthys at Wikimedia Commons
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