Austrobatrachus

Austrobatrachus is a genus of toadfishes found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans off the coast of South Africa.

Austrobatrachus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Batrachoidiformes
Family: Batrachoididae
Subfamily: Halophryninae
Genus: Austrobatrachus
J. L. B. Smith, 1949
Type species
Pseudobatrachus foedus
J.L.B. Smith, 1947

Species

The recognized species in this genus are:[1][2]

  • Austrobatrachus foedus (J. L. B. Smith, 1947) (puzzled toadfish)
  • Austrobatrachus iselesele D. W. Greenfield, 2012
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References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Austrobatrachus in FishBase. June 2012 version.
  2. Greenfield, D.W. (2012): Austrobatrachus iselesele, a new toadfish species from South Africa (Teleostei: Batrachoididae). Zootaxa, 3400: 58–63.


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