Bocon toadfish
| Bocon toadfish | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Batrachoidiformes |
| Family: | Batrachoididae |
| Genus: | Amphichthys |
| Species: | A. cryptocentrus |
| Binomial name | |
| Amphichthys cryptocentrus (Valenciennes, 1837) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
|
Amphichthys hildebrandi (Breder, 1925) | |
The Bocon toadfish (Amphichthys cryptocentrus) is a species of tropical toadfish in the family Batrachoididae found along the Caribbean-Atlantic Coast of Central and South America from Panama to Brazil. This species grows to a length of 40 cm (16 in). This species is of minor importance to commercial fisheries.
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Amphichthys cryptocentrus" in FishBase. April 2012 version.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, September 04, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.