Macrorhamphosodes

Macrorhamphosodes, the trumpetsnouts, 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== Macrorhamphosodes was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1934 by the American zoologist Henry Weed Fowler with Macrorhamphosodes platycheilus designated as its type species, and its only species. M. platycheilus was also described by Fowler in 1934 and its type locality given as Sombrero Island off Luzonin the Philippines from Albatross station 5118 from a depth of . In 1933 the Japanese ichthyologist Toshiji Kamohara has described Halimochirus uradoi from Kochi Prefecture in Japan, the genus name was a misspelling of Halimochirurgus. In 1968 James C. Tyler reclassified this species to this genus as M. uradoi. Also in 1968, 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.