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Genus of fishes

Paramonacanthus

Paramonacanthus japonicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Monacanthidae
Genus:	Paramonacanthus Bleeker, 1865

Paramonacanthus is a genus of filefishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Species

There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:

Paramonacanthus arabicus Hutchins, 1997
Paramonacanthus choirocephalus (Bleeker, 1852)
Paramonacanthus cryptodon (Bleeker, 1855)
Paramonacanthus curtorhynchos (Bleeker, 1855)
Paramonacanthus filicauda (Günther, 1880)
Paramonacanthus frenatus (Peters, 1855)
Paramonacanthus japonicus (Tilesius, 1809)
Paramonacanthus lowei Hutchins, 1997
Paramonacanthus matsuurai Hutchins, 1997
Paramonacanthus nematophorus (Günther, 1870)
Paramonacanthus nipponensis (Kamohara, 1939)
Paramonacanthus oblongus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)
Paramonacanthus otisensis Whitley, 1931
Paramonacanthus pusillus (Rüppell, 1829)
Paramonacanthus sulcatus (Hollard, 1854)
Paramonacanthus tricuspis (Hollard, 1854)

Gallery

Paramonacanthus choirocephalus at Raja Ampat, 2020
Paramonacanthus choirocephalus at Lembeh, 2018
Paramonacanthus choirocephalus at Lembeh, 2018

References

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.

Taxon identifiers
Paramonacanthus	Wikidata: Q75303 Wikispecies: Paramonacanthus AFD: Paramonacanthus BioLib: 97002 BOLD: 3853 CoL: 6FM5 GBIF: 5213405 iNaturalist: 90744 ITIS: 646122 NCBI: 392922 Open Tree of Life: 361091 WoRMS: 206464

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