Zanclorhynchus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Congiopodidae, the pigfishes or horsefishes. These fishes are found in the Southern Ocean.
Zanclorhynchus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Congiopodidae, the pigfishes or horsefishes. These fishes are found in the Southern Ocean.
==Taxonomy== Zanclorhynchus was first described as a genus in 1880 by the German-born British ichthyologist Albert Günther as a monotypic genus, its only member being the new species Günther described in the same paper, Zanclorhynchus spinifer, with its type locality given as Kerguelen Island. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus in the family Congiopodidae but other authorities classify it within the family Zanclorhynchidae, alongside the genus Alertichthys. The genus name is a compound of zanklon, which means "sickle", and rhynchus, meaning "snout", assumed to be an allusion to the pointed snout of adult Z. spinifer.
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