Thymichthys

Thymichthys is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Brachionichthyidae, the handfishes. Like all members of the handfish family these fishes are endemic to Australia.

==Taxonomy== Thymichthys was first proposed as a genus in 2009 by the Australian zoologists Peter R. Last and Daniel C. Gledhill when they reviewed the family Brachionichthyidae. Cheironectes politus, which was described in 1844 by the Scottish naturalist and explorer John Richardson from the Actaeon Islands in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel off Tasmania, was designated as the type species. This genus is classified within the family Brachionichthyidae which the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family Brachionichthyidae within the suborder Antennarioidei within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.