Caprichthys
Sign in to saveCaprichthys is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Aracanidae, the deepwater boxfishes or temperate boxfishes. The only species in the genus is the rigid boxfish (Caprichthys gymnura), also known as the black-spotted boxfish or ornate pigmy boxfish which is endemic to southwestern Australia.
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Vinony files it under Aracanidae, Fish described in 1915 and IUCN Red List least concern species.
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- monotypic taxon
- Parent taxon
- Aracanidae
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- Caprichthys
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- McCulloch & Waite, 1915
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- Caprichthys
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- Caprichthys gymnura
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Caprichthys is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Aracanidae, the deepwater boxfishes or temperate boxfishes. The only species in the genus is the rigid boxfish (Caprichthys gymnura), also known as the black-spotted boxfish or ornate pigmy boxfish which is endemic to southwestern Australia.
==Taxonomy== Caprichthys was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1915 by the Australian ichthyologists Allan Riverstone McCulloch and Edgar Ravenswood Waite when they described its only species, Caprichthys gymnura. The type locality of C. gymnura was given as Southwestern Australia. The exact type localities were given as Doubtful Island Bay at and between Cape Naturaliste and Geraldton.
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