Giant stargazer
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Trachiniformes
Family: Uranoscopidae
Genus: Kathetostoma
Species:
K. giganteum
Binomial name
Kathetostoma giganteum
Haast, 1873

The giant stargazer (Kathetostoma giganteum) is a stargazer of the family Uranoscopidae, found on the continental shelf around New Zealand and endemic to that area.[1]

It is commonly called monkfish, but this should not be confused with the Northern Hemisphere monkfish which is an entirely different genus of fish, Lophius, in another order, Lophiiformes.[2]

References

  1. "Kathetostoma giganteum Haast, 1873". fishbase.org.
  2. "New Zealand Monkfish".
  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Kathetostoma giganteum" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
  • Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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