Phyllophryne

Phyllophryne is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Histiophryninae in the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes. The only species in the genus is Phyllophryne scortea, the white-spotted anglerfish, smooth anglerfish or smooth frogfish, which is endemic to southern Australia.

==Taxonomy== Phyllophryne was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1984 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Wells Pietsch III with Histiophryne scortea designated as the type species. H. scortea was first formally described in 1918 by Allan Riverstone McCulloch and Edgar Ravenswood Waite with its type locality given as Stansbury on Gulf St Vincent in South Australia. Some authorities classify this genus in the subfamily Histiophryninae within the family Antennariidae., while others recognise it as the family Histiophrynidae. 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.