Bufoceratias

Bufoceratias is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Diceratiidae, the double anglers. Fishes in this genus are found in the Indian, Pacific and Western Atlantic Oceans.

==Taxonomy== Bufoceratias was first proposed as a genus in 1931 by the British-born Australian ichthyologist Gilbert Percy Whitley with Phrynichthys wedli as its type species. Whitley was replacing Phrynichthys as the genus name because Whitley thought that this name was preoccupied by Phrynichthys Agassiz, 1864, which was a replacement name for Bufichthys Swainson, 1839, and Whitley's name is now accepted. Phrynichthys wedli had been first formally described in 1926 by the Austrian ichthyologist Viktor Pietschmann with its type locality given as Madeira. This genus is one of two genera in the family Diceratiidae which the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies within the suborder Ceratioidei within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.