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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: Perciformes
Subordo: Percoidei
Superfamilia: Percoidea

Familia: Malacanthidae
Subfamilia: Latilinae
Genus: Lopholatilus
Species: L. chamaeleonticeps – †L. ereborensis – L. villarii
Name

Lopholatilus Goode & Bean, 1879
References
Links

Lopholatilus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Lopholatilus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2023. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 06/2022.

Vernacular names

Lopholatilus is a small genus of 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 is also an extinct species:[3]

†Lopholatilus ereborensis Carnevale & Godfrey, 2014

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Malacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Lopholatilus in 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.

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