Acanthonus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Ophidiiformes
- Family
- Ophidiidae
- Genus
- Acanthonus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Acanthonus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Acanthonus
Acanthonus, also known as deepsea cusk-eels, are a genus of deepwater ophidiiform fish. They are the only members of the family Acanthonidae. They were formerly placed within the subfamily Neobythiinae of the Ophidiidae.
...Acanthonus in languages:
- Japanese
- ハナトゲアシロ属
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Abyssobrotula
- Acanthonus
- Alcockia
- Apagesoma
- Barathrites
- Barathrodemus
- Bassogigas
- Bassozetus
- Bathyonus
- Benthocometes
- Dannevigia
- Dicrolene
- Enchelybrotula
- Epetriodus
- Eretmichthys
- Glyptophidium
- Holcomycteronus
- Homostolus
- Hoplobrotula
- Hypopleuron
- Lamprogrammus
- Leptobrotula
- Leucicorus
- Luciobrotula
- Mastigopterus
- Monomitopus
- Neobythites
- Neobythitoides
- Penopus
- Porogadus
- Pycnocraspedum
- Selachophidium
- Sirembo
- Spectrunculus
- Spottobrotula
- Tauredophidium
- Tenuicephalus
- Thalassobathia
- Typhlonus
- Ventichthys
- Xyelacyba