Brachionichthys
Sign in to saveBrachionichythys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Brachionichthyidae, the handfishes. These fishes are confined to the southeastern Indian Ocean and southwestern Pacific Ocean off Australia.
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Brachionichythys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Brachionichthyidae, the handfishes. These fishes are confined to the southeastern Indian Ocean and southwestern Pacific Ocean off Australia.
==Taxonomy== Brachionichthys was first proposed as a genus in 1854 by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker with Chironectes hirsutus designated as its type species by Bleeker in 1865. C. hirsutus is the same as Lophius hirsutus which was described in 1804 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède with its type locality given as "Côtes sud de l'Australie", probably meaning Tasmania. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family Brachionichthyidae within the suborder Antennarioidei within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.
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