Antennarius

Antennarius is a genus of anglerfish belonging to the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes. The fishes in this genus are found in warmer parts of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.

==Taxonomy== Antennarius was first proposed as a genus in 1816 by French naturalist François Marie Daudin with Lophius chironectes being designated as its type species in 1856 by Pieter Bleeker. Lophius chironectes was a binomial authored twice, once by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1798 and again by Pierre André Latreille in 1804, though which is the type species of this genus is not clear. Catalog of Fishes lists Latreille's name as a synonym of A. pictus and states that this taxon is probably the correct type species. Some authorities classify this genus in the subfamily Antennariinae within the family Antennariidae. However, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Antennariidae, classifying the family within the suborder Antennarioidei in the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.