Chlorophthalmus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Aulopiformes
- Family
- Chlorophthalmidae
- Genus
- Chlorophthalmus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Chlorophthalmus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Chlorophthalmus
Chlorophthalmus is a genus of greeneyes
The species is distinguished by a silvery gray body with black spots and dark crossbar traces, a lower jaw that ends in a peculiar horizontal plate with spine-like processes, and other unique characteristics including body part sizes and proportions. Chlorophthalmus bicornis is a junior synonym of C. corniger. At depths of 200 to 500 meters, C. corniger is mostly found in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, extending from southern Java, Indonesia, to Somalia.
...Chlorophthalmus in languages:
- Japanese
- アオメエソ属
- Russian
- Зеленоглазки
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Chlorophthalmus acutifrons
- Chlorophthalmus agassizi
- Chlorophthalmus albatrossis
- Chlorophthalmus atlanticus
- Chlorophthalmus basiniger
- Chlorophthalmus borealis
- Chlorophthalmus brasiliensis
- Chlorophthalmus corniger
- Chlorophthalmus ichthyandri
- Chlorophthalmus imperator
- Chlorophthalmus mascarensis
- Chlorophthalmus mento
- Chlorophthalmus nigromarginatus
- Chlorophthalmus pectoralis
- Chlorophthalmus productus
- Chlorophthalmus proridens
- Chlorophthalmus punctatus
- Chlorophthalmus vityazi
- Chlorophthalmus vulcanus
- Chlorophthalmus zvezdae