Banded toadfish
The banded toadfish (Aphos porosus) is a species of toadfish found along the Pacific coast of South America where it is found in Chile, Ecuador and Peru. This species grows to a length of 28 centimetres (11 in) TL. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Aphos.[2] Unlike the other genus, Porichthys in this subfamily the banded toadfish lacks photophores.[3]
| Banded toadfish | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Batrachoidiformes |
| Family: | Batrachoididae |
| Subfamily: | Porichthyinae |
| Genus: | Aphos C. L. Hubbs & L. P. Schultz, 1939 |
| Species: | A. porosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Aphos porosus (Valenciennes, 1837) | |
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References
- Collette B.; Acero, A. & Betancur, R. (2010). "Aphos porosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T183734A8166907. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T183734A8166907.en.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Aphos porosus" in FishBase. April 2012 version.
- David W. Greenfield; Richard Winterbottom & Bruce Baden Collette (2008). "Review of the toadfish genera (Teleostei: Batrachoididae)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 4. 59 (15): 665–710.
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