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Chaetodipterus
Sign in to saveChaetodipterus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ephippidae, the spadefishes. These fishes are found in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans.
Species
Atlantic Spadefish
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyEphippidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 318
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Ephippidae
- Collections
- USNM, NCSM, ROM
- Recorded in
- United States
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Chaetodipterus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ephippidae, the spadefishes. These fishes are found in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans.
==Taxonomy== Chaetodipterus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1802 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède with Chaetodon plumieri, a species described by Marcus Elieser Bloch on 1787 from Jamaica, as its only species. Chaetodon plumieri is a synonym of Chaetodipterus faber. This genus is classified within the family Ephippidae which is in the order Moroniformes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chaetodipterus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.