Halimochirurgus

Halimochirurgus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Triacanthodidae, the spikefishes. The fishes in this genus are found in the deep waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

==Taxonomy== Halimochirurgus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1899 by the British physician, naturalist, and carcinologist Alfred William Alcock with Halimochirurgus centriscoides designated as its type species, and its only species. H. centriscoides was also described by Alcock in 1899 and its type locality given as the Gulf of Mannar to the west of Sri Lanka at 7°15'N, 77°46'E from a depth of . In 1913 Max Carl Wilhelm Weber described a second species in the genus, H. alcocki, giving its type locality as the Arafura Sea at 5°48.2'S, 132°13'W. In 1968, James C. Tyler classified this genus in the nominate subfamily of the family Triacanthodidae, the Triacanthodinae. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family Triacanthodidae in the suborder Triacanthoidei in the order Tetraodontiformes.