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Zalieutes
Sign in to saveZalieutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ogcocephalidae, the deep sea batfishes. The species in this genus are benthic fishes found in deep waters in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans.
Species
Roundel Batfish
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderLophiiformes
- FamilyOgcocephalidae
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- Specimen records
- 4
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- 2
- Family
- Ogcocephalidae
- Collections
- USNM, MNHN, FMNH
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Guyane Francaise
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- Parent taxon
- Ogcocephalidae
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Zalieutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ogcocephalidae, the deep sea batfishes. The species in this genus are benthic fishes found in deep waters in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans.
==Taxonomy== Zalieutes was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1896 by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann with Malthe elater as its type species by monotypy. M. elater was first formally described in 1882 by Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert with its type locality given as Mazatlán Harbor in Sinaloa, western Mexico. This genus is classified within the "Eastern Pacific/Western Atlantic clade" of the family Ogcocephalidae. The family Ogcocephalidae is classified in the monotypic suborder Ogcocephaloidei within the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World.
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