- Classification
- ACTINOPTERYGII
- LOPHIIFORMES
- CHAUNACIDAE
- Chaunacops
Genus Chaunacops
A genus of tadpole-like coffinfishes with four species, two of which occur in Australian waters: Chaunacops melanostomus and C. spinosus.
Chaunacops differs from the genus Chaunax in having a broader head, relatively widely-spaced spines covering the body, fewer lateral line pores, and a longer illicium. There are also a number of skeletal differences.
References
Caruso, J.H. 1989. A review of the Indo-Pacific members of the deep-water chaunacid anglerfish genus Bathychaunax, with the description of a new species from the eastern Indian Ocean (Pisces: Lophiiformes). Bulletin of Marine Science 45: 574-579.
Caruso, J.H., Ho, H-C. & T.W. Pietsch. 2006. Chaunacops Garman, 1899, a senior objective synonym of Bathychaunax Caruso, 1989 (Lophiiformes: Chaunacoidei: Chaunacidae). Copeia 2006(1): 120-121.
Garman, S. 1899. Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. 26. The fishes. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 24: 1-431, 98 pls (p. 76, as a subgenus of Chaunax).Ho, H.-C., Kawai, T. & Satria, F. 2015. Species of the anglerfish genus Chaunaxfrom Indonesia, with descriptions of two new species (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 63: 301-308. PDF available Open access
Ho, H.-C. & McGrouther, M. 2015. A new anglerfish from eastern Australia and New Caledonia (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae: Chaunacops), with new data and submersible observation of Chaunacops melanostomus. Journal of Fish Biology, doi:10.1111/jfb.12607
Lundsten L, Johnson SB, Cailliet GM, DeVogelaere AP, Clague DA (2012) Morphological, molecular, and in situ behavioral observations of the rare deep-sea anglerfish Chaunacops coloratus (Garman 1899), Order Lophiiformes, in the eastern North Pacific. Deep-Sea Research I 68: 46–53 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.05.012