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: Batrachoidaria
Ordo: Batrachoidiformes
Familia: Batrachoididae
Subfamilia: Batrachoidinae
Genus: Opsanus
Species: O. beta - O. dichrostomus - O. pardus - O. phobetron - O. tau
Name
Opsanus Rafinesque, 1818
Gender: masculine
Type species: Opsanus cerapalus Rafinesque, 1818 by original designation.
Opsanus tau
References
Rafinesque, C. S. 1818. Description of two new genera of North American fishes, Opsanus, and Notropis. American Monthly Magazine and Critical Revue v. 2 (3): 203–204.
Greenfield, D.W., R. Winterbottom, and B.B. Collette. 2008. Review of the toadfish genera (Teleostei: Batrachoididae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, 59(15): 665–710
Opsanus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Opsanus is a genus of toadfishes found in the western Atlantic Ocean. It currently has six recognised species, with the latest one described in 2005.
Species
The recognized species in this genus are:[2]
Opsanus beta (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1880) (Gulf toadfish)
Opsanus brasiliensis Rotundo, Spinelli & Zavala-Camin, 2005 (considered by some sources to be a junior synonym of O. tau)[3]
Opsanus dichrostomus Collette, 2001 (bicolor toadfish)
Opsanus pardus (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1880) (leopard toadfish)
Opsanus phobetron Walters & C. R. Robins, 1961 (scarecrow toadfish)
Opsanus tau (Linnaeus, 1766) (oyster toadfish)
References
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Opsanus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Opsanus in FishBase. April 2012 version.
"FAMILY Details for Batrachoididae - Toadfishes".
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