Lopholatilus
| Lopholatilus Temporal range:
| |
|---|---|
| Great northern tilefish (L. chamaeleonticeps) | |
| Tilefish (L. villarii) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Latilidae |
| Genus: | Lopholatilus Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879 |
| Type species | |
| Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879[1]
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Lopholatilus is a small genus of large-sized tilefishes native to the western Atlantic Ocean.[2]
Species
There are currently two recognized extant species in this genus:[2]
- Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879 (Great northern tilefish)
- Lopholatilus villarii A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915 (Tile fish)
There are also two extinct species:[3]
- †Lopholatilus ereborensis Carnevale & Godfrey, 2014 (Middle Miocene of Maryland & Virginia, US)
- †Lopholatilus rayus Purdy et al., 2001 (Early Pliocene of North Carolina, US)[4]
References
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Malacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lopholatilus". FishBase. December 2013 version.
- ^ Carnevale, Giorgio; Godfrey, Stephen J. (9 September 2014). "Tilefish (Teleostei, Malacanthidae) remains from the Miocene Calvert Formation, Maryland and Virginia: taxonomical and paleoecological remarks". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (5): 1018–1032. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.845202.
- ^ Purdy, Robert W.; Schneider, Vincent P.; Applegate, Shelton P.; McLellan, Jack H.; Meyer, Robert L.; Slaughter, Bob H. (2001). "The Neogene Sharks, Rays, and Bony Fishes from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina". Biodiversity Heritage Library. Retrieved 2025-09-02.