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Chironemus
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Chironemus is a genus of marine ray finned fish, commonly known as kelpfishes, belonging to the family Chironemidae. They are found in the temperate waters of the Southern Pacific Ocean.
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Vinony files it under Chironemidae and Taxa named by Georges Cuvier.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCentrarchiformes
- FamilyChironemidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 18
- Family
- Chironemidae
- Collections
- UCMP, USNM, AM, SAMA, WAM, ANSP
- Recorded in
- United States, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, Seychelles
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- Chironemus marmoratus.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Distribution and habitat
- Biology
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Chironemus is a genus of marine ray finned fish, commonly known as kelpfishes, belonging to the family Chironemidae. They are found in the temperate waters of the Southern Pacific Ocean.
== Taxonomy == The Kelpfishes were placed in the monogeneric family Chironemidae in 1862 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill. The genus had been described in 1829 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier when he had described the type species Chironemus georgianus. The family is regarded as part of the superfamily Cirrhitoidea, which is placed within the order Perciformes in the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World, however other authorities place this clade within a new order within the wider Percomorpha, Centrarchiformes. The name of the genus is from Greek cheir meaning "hands" and nema meaning "thread".
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