Cirrhitichthys
Appearance
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Spotted Hawkfish, (C. aprinus) | |
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Genus: | Cirrhitichthys Bleeker, 1857
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Cirrhites graphidopterus Bleeker, 1853
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Cirrhitichthys is a genus of hawkfishes found on tropical reefs in the Indian and western Pacific oceans.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Cirrhitichthys aprinus (G. Cuvier, 1829) (spotted hawkfish)
- Cirrhitichthys aureus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842) (yellow hawkfish)
- Cirrhitichthys bleekeri F. Day, 1874
- Cirrhitichthys calliurus Regan, 1905 (spottedtail hawkfish)
- Cirrhitichthys falco J. E. Randall, 1963 (dwarf hawkfish)
- Cirrhitichthys guichenoti (Sauvage, 1880)
- Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (Bleeker, 1855) (coral hawkfish)
- Cirrhitichthys randalli Kotthaus, 1976
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cirrhitichthys". FishBase. April 2013 version.