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Neomerinthe
Sign in to saveNeomerinthe is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. They are found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderScorpaeniformes
- FamilyScorpaenidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 114
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Scorpaenidae
- Collections
- NMV, CAS, USNM, NCSM, BPBM
- Recorded in
- Australia, Philippines, Costa Rica, United States, China, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan
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Neomerinthe is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. They are found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.
==Taxonomy== Neomerinthe was first described as a genus in 1935 by the American ichthyologist Henry Weed Fowler, Fowler was describing N. hemingwayi, with a type locality given as off Cape May, New Jersey, which he designated as the type species of a new genus. The genus name is a compound of neo, meaning new, and Merinthe, a synonym of the genus Pontinus, which Fowler thought N. hemingwayi resembled.
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