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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Tetraodontiformes
Subordo: Tetraodontoidei

Familia: Diodontidae
Genus: Chilomycterus
Species (5): C. antennatus – C. antillarum – C. geometricus – C. reticulatus – C. spinosus – C. schoepfii
Name

Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville, 1846
Gender: masculine
Type species: Diodon reticulatus Brisout de Barneville, 1846

References

Chilomycterus in the World Register of Marine Species
Chilomycterus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

'Chilomycterus geometricus

Chilomycterus geometricus

Chilomycterus is a genus of diodontid tetraodontiform fishes commonly called "burrfish."
Species

There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:[1]

Chilomycterus antennatus (G. Cuvier, 1816) (bridled burrfish)
Chilomycterus antillarum D. S. Jordan & Rutter, 1897 (web burrfish)
Chilomycterus mauretanicus (Y. Le Danois, 1954) (Guinean burrfish)[2]
Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (spotfin burrfish)
Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) (striped burrfish)
Chilomycterus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). "Chilomycterus mauretanicus". FishBase.

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