Nudiantennarius

Nudiantennarius is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes. The only species in the genus is Nudiantennarius subteres, the deepwater frogfish. This fish is found in the Western Pacific Ocean.

==Taxonomy== Nudiantennarius was first proposed as a genus in 1957 by the American ichthyologist Leonard Peter Schultz. Schultz designated Antennarius subteres as the type species of the new genus, as well as being its only species. Anetnnarius subteres has been first formally described in 1912 by Hugh McCormick Smith and Lewis Radcliffe with its type locality given as Lingayen Gulf in western Luzon in the Philippines. An unidentified frogfish from Lembeh was identified as being this species in 2017. Within the family Antennariidae this taxon has been found to be most closely related to the sargassum fish (Histrio histrio). Some authorities classify this genus in the subfamily Antennariinae within the family Antennariidae. However, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Antennariidae, classifying the family within the suborder Antennarioidei within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.