Chaunacidae

Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), Zootaxa 4067 (3), pp. 293-333 : 318

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:50B7E074-F212-4193-BFB9-84A1D0A0E03C
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treatment provided by	Plazi (2016-04-03 14:44:58, last updated 2016-04-03 14:47:17)
scientific name	Chaunacidae
status

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Family Chaunacidae

Chaunax pictus Lowe, 1846 View Treatment —Pink frogmouth

63 specimens were caught at depths between 726 and 940 m. Length data were available for 40 specimens ranging from 12 to 41 cm TL (23.6 ± 7.1). Habitat and Distribution: bathydemersal on continental shelves, slopes and seamounts at depth range 200– 978 m. Circumglobal in tropical to temperate waters, although Ho & Last (2013) limited its presence to the Atlantic Ocean. Vulnerability: DD ( IUCN), LMV (FishBase).

References

Ho, H-C. & Last, P. R. (2013) Two new species of the coffinfish genus Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from the Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 3710 (5), 436 - 448. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3710.5.3