Microlophichthys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Oneirodidae, the dreamers, a family of deep sea anglerfishes. The species in this genus are found in the tropical and subtropical parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Microlophichthys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Oneirodidae, the dreamers, a family of deep sea anglerfishes. The species in this genus are found in the tropical and subtropical parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
==Taxonomy== Micrlophichthys was first proposed as a monotypic subgenus of Dolopichthys in 1932 by the British ichthyologists Charles Tate Regan and Ethelwynn Trewavas with Dolopichthys microlophus as its only species. As Regan and Trewavas proposed the subgenus after 1930 they should have explicitly designated a type species in accordance with Article 13b of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, this was not done until Maurice Burton designated the type species in The Zoological Record, the authorship should be Burton (ex Regan & Trewavas) but prevailing usage is Regan & Trewavas, 1932. D. microlophus was first formally described in 1925 by Regan with its type locality given as the Eastern Atlantic, about northeast of Santo Antão, Cape Verde at 17°55'N, 24°35'W from a depth of around . In 1951, the Danish ichthyologist Erik Bertelsen proposed that Microlophichthys was a valid genus and described a second species, M. andracanthus from the Caribbean Sea. Microlophichthys has been described as one of the more basal genera within the family Oneirodidae. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus in the family Oneirodidae in the suborder Ceratioidei of the anglerfish order Lophiiformes.
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