Chilomycterus

Burrfishes
Temporal range: Early Miocene–present
Chilomycterus schoepfii
Chilomycterus antillarum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Diodontidae
Genus: Chilomycterus
Brisout de Barneville, 1846
Type species
Diodon atringa
Brisout de Barneville, 1846
Synonyms

Atinga Le Danois, 1954
Chilomyctere Bibron, 1855
Cyanichthys Kaup, 1855
Lyosphaera Evermann & Kendall, 1898 (uncertainly a synonym of this genus)

Chilomycterus is a genus of diodontid tetraodontiform fishes commonly called "burrfish".

Distribution

A majority of Chilomycterus species are found in the Atlantic Ocean, and primarily in the western Atlantic. Only one species, C. reticulatus, is also found in the Indo-Pacific region. The western Atlantic appears to have always been a region of diversity for the genus, as a majority of fossil species have been found there. Only a single indeterminate fossil assigned to this genus is known from the Pacific coast of Panama.

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:

Fossil species

The following fossil species are known:

The former species C. acanthodes from the Miocene of Italy is now placed in Oligodiodon.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Aguilera, Orangel; Silva, Guilherme Oliveira Andrade; Lopes, Ricardo Tadeu; Machado, Alessandra Silveira; Santos, Thaís Maria dos; Marques, Gabriela; Bertucci, Thayse; Aguiar, Thayanne; Carrillo-Briceño, Jorge; Rodriguez, Felix; Jaramillo, Carlos (2017-07-26). "Neogene Proto-Caribbean porcupinefishes (Diodontidae)". PLOS ONE. 12 (7) e0181670. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1281670A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181670. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 5528887. PMID 28746370.
  2. ↑ Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. Ichthyological Research, 62 (1): 72-113.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). "Chilomycterus mauretanicus". FishBase.
  4. ↑ Cantalice, Kleyton M.; Salgado-Garrido, Hugo E.; Sosa-Rodríguez, Erick; Vilchis-Zapata, Kay; González-Barba, Gerardo; Project, on behalf of the Underwater Archaeological Atlas (2025-02-06). "Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico". PLOS ONE. 20 (2) e0315382. Bibcode:2025PLoSO..2015382C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0315382. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 11801553. PMID 39913453.
  5. ↑ Tyler, J. C.; Bannikov, A. F. (2009-11-01). "Phylogenetic implications of the some cranial features of the porcupine pufferfish Pshekhadiodon (Tetraodontiformes, Diodontidae) from the Eocene of the Northern Caucasus". Journal of Ichthyology. 49 (9): 703–709. Bibcode:2009JIch...49..703T. doi:10.1134/S003294520909001X. ISSN 1555-6425.
  6. ↑ Gallo, Valéria; Carvalho, Marise Sardenberg Salgado de; Souto, Alex Alves (2009-06-01). "A possible occurrence of Diodontidae (Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes) in the Upper Cretaceous of the Paraíba Basin, northeastern Brazil". Cretaceous Research. 30 (3): 599–604. Bibcode:2009CrRes..30..599G. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.12.001. ISSN 0195-6671.